Evolution on RedHat 7.2

[Tom Achtenberg]

Craig
Yes I had done the system update on Sunday this week.  My system is up to date.  I am NOT a beginner on computers, just Linux.  People on this list are more than ready to bash MS for any and everything, but completely overlook the lack of user friendliness of Linux.  It should not take 2 college degrees, 6 technicians 3 consultants and a discussion list to install a simple piece of software.  In this area Windows has Linux totally smothered.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:29 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Evolution on RedHat 7.2


On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 21:43, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> I downloaded the dependent rpms.  Ran into 6 more dependencies at this
> level.  Tried the --nodeps Carl recommended and got at least 40 conflicts in
> the installation.  It just isn't worth this kind of hassle and frustration.
> For the third and final time I am giving up on Evolution and anything else
> from Ximian.  They have a long way to go before their programs are ready for
> general public consumption.  I have NEVER had this much trouble installing
> anything in Windows.
> 
> I will patiently wait for KDE 3 to be released.
> 
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I used to agree with you but you have to understand that it is your own
lack of understanding that is the problem. The problem with dependencies
is really what you have already installed vs. what you are trying to
install and what it thinks that it needs.

Perhaps we started at a different place since I was totally up to date
on my RH 7.2 because of the up2date program. I believe that you stated
that you did a 'clean install' the other day. Have you brought it up to
date? If not, why not just hold on to the files (put them in a folder)
and then do the 'System Update' - since you are on a modem - get the
process started and let it run all night. Then re-visit the evolution
install.

I can assure you of one thing...as someone who saw the difficulty of
going from KDE 2.1 to 2.2, if you think this one is too tough - you
ain't seen nothing yet because KDE-base etc. for version 3 is going to
be extremely difficult to layer onto RH 7.2 - Blake, want to pipe in on
the virtues of apt-get here?  ;-)

Craig

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