On Tuesday 04 February 2003 17:58, Kristian Koehntopp wrote: [...]
One of the reasons I do not use apt or apt4rpm is that my Debian experience with apt was so abysmal. Half of the time Debian apt left me with a dialogue with rougly the meaning of "installation of package ... failed. You have the choice of a) never installing a package again or b) deleting all packages that have ever heard of the new package, including your X server and all software development packages you can think of." only worded differently.
Oh, you evil man! Next time you are in Ottawa, Canada, I must buy you a beer. :-) You realize, of course, that you have just described most of my experience with Linux in general, in almost the words that I would use? And I've never even met Debian (just SuSE and RH).
Using rpm and a shell script I can at least preview what will happen to my system and control which dependencies I chose to ignore or which ones I have to work around.
Well, since I'd already beaten myself up with apt-get, I thought I'd take one more swing using Richard Bos' recent comments. If that doesn't work, then I'll try your procedure and see what /b/r/e/a/k/s/... er... happens. Thanks, /kevin