On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:56:40 +1100
Colin Carter
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Thanks to one of your suggestions I managed to find libcanna. (But once again the jargon was confusing: eg how was I supposed to know that libRKC was inside?)
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I find it very difficult to cope with conflicting messages like rmp -i saying "already installed" and rpm -q saying "not installed". And messages which give miss-leading clues like requiring a package that is not there (eg emacs-package) and trivia like a newbie is supposed to know that one should drop off the .x86_64 under certain circumstances but not others (and why not drop the version?)
You should probably try to use higher-level tools like Yast, kpackage (GUI) or apt4rpm (text). They are capable of resolving dependencies for you. I personally use apt and I wouldn't want to miss it. Once you have set that up, a mere apt-get install xemacs will install xemacs to your system with all packages that are required in addition. Read more at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ Hope that helps, Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) http://www.the-one-brack.org/