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On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:16 -0400, Steve Jacobs wrote:
I've got a freshly-installed Suse 10 system. (Eval)
There are a few things I want to add to the system (lineakd, lame, Opera 8.5, among others).
I've been slowly learning more about Linux for a few years now, and for the last couple of years have been messing around with Suse 9.0 and Suse 9.1.
My impression is that if I want to maintain the usability of Yast and RPM in general, I have to do all of my installs through them. In other words, if I choose to do an install manually somehow, like rpm from the command-line, Yast will no longer know what's what and will become undependable.
Not true. YaST uses the same RPM data base as the command line rpm.
If I install something via a script, or recompile something in to the kernel myself, than RPM won't have an accurate database and will be unusable.
Just keep in mind that the same rpm database is used for any rpm based operation.
Is this a valid concern, or are the experienced among you shaking your heads and laughing at my ignorance?
Thanks, Steve -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998