On 03/01/2008 09:01 PM, James Pifer wrote:
Reinstalling my system using 64 bit has fixed many of many performance issues. Coming from the redhat line I'm used to using yum and like using yum. I've installed yum on opensuse 10.3 and added the videolan and packman repos. I'm having a lot of problems with things getting broken.
For example, if I install vlc it installs a bunch of packages, but does not remove any. It wants to install both 64 and 32 bit. I don't know why it's doing that. After installing vlc yum and rpm are broken because libpopt.so.0 is missing. Actually it's libpopt.so.0.0.0 or something. I may be off slightly there, but the point is the same.
Anyway, I reinstalled from scratch and made sure I did NOT install the 32bit support as part of the install. Installing vlc did the same thing.
I'm reinstalling again because I don't know what else got broken even if I fix popt. I'll try using just yast for the installations and see if that goes better.
Just to be clear, it's not just vlc causing this, that was just an example.
Any suggestions?
I have never used yum, but I did use smart and had several times when it wanted to do similarly sounding things. I have also used apt4rpm in the past, and it also had a harder time keeping the arch straight. I have found Yast to be much better, and with the graphical version easily seeing which arch it wants to update/install, I use it exclusively now for the last 2 versions. I would highly recommend sticking with Yast. It will help you keep your system working. It isn't perfect, but it is the best I have tried. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org