On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 11:49, Richard Bos wrote:
Than do yourself a favour and use apt to assist. Have apt _only_ download the necessary rpms for you and just you install them manually. The 2 things to know for this are: use apt with the '-d' argument: download only. The rpms are downloaded in /var/cache/apt/archives. At this point just use rpm, yast, kpackage or whatever other tool you like to install the packages.
BTW: I myself prefer command line apt over synaptic. It gives much more control to the user, at least that is my experience.
I'll probably do this when I install 3.2 on my work system. I never thought of using apt to just download. Thanks for the tip! Also, rather than installing one by one, can I rpm -Uvh all the rpms at once and let rpm sort it out? E.g., rpm -Uvh x.rpm x.rpm z.rpm etc. Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com