On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:22, JD Austin wrote: > Fore redhat I install both yum and apt to get out of dependency > nightmares pretty painlessly. > I'm not sure of the mandrake repositories out there. > The dag repository for redhat stays pretty up to date > :http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ > Here's one set of yum repositories I found for mandrake: > http://speculation.org/garrick/yum.conf > > JD > JD, Thanks for the feedback. I have heard about yum, so I decided on your suggestion to try it, and downloaded the latest version, yum 3.0. Unfortunately, it's a bit baffling. To begin with, the INSTALL file was not encouraging: For usage information, please see the README. run make run make install, if you're a masochist. you're better off making an rpm and installing it If "make install" is so bad, why do they provide it? And how should I make this rpm? And what will making the rpm accomplish? I haven't a clue! OK, so I tried the "make install" anyway. It _seemed_ to work. Running yum gives this message: There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named yum That's very interesting, since yum is what I allegedly just installed. Perhaps I don't have the right version of python (mine is 2.3.3) - seems like the most likely explanation for this snafu but I don't see any documentation in the yum source which tells me what version I need. In the FAQ file, I found this interesting tidbit: If you are getting a message that yum itself is the missing module then you probably installed it incorreclty (or installed the source rpm using make/make install). If possible, find a prebuilt rpm that will work for your system like one from Fedora or CentOS. Or, you can download the srpm and do a rpmbuild --rebuild yum*.src.rpm I didn't find any prebuild rpm's for my system, but I did see a source RPM, which I downloaded, and I tried that rpmbuild. It spews a lot of messages, but I can't see that anything actually happened under /usr/src/RPM, nor does yum work any differently than besfore. Did the previous operation actually modify the yum RPM I downloaded? Not sure, but I tried installing it, which produces a tarball in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES. I unzipped and untarred this and now what? Another make and make install? Why not? Nothing's changed, though. My conclusion: I've never seen a more muddled and confusing and utterly useuless installation on any open source product! Vaughn > Vaughn Treude wrote: > > Hello everyone: > > > > I've got a Mandrake system I use for my day-to-day business. I do not > > want to upgrade it, as it generally works fine and I've _never_ had an > > upgrade-type install succeed on Linux, ever (it has always hung the > > system - and I've tried it on several machines at several times.) My > > Mandrake system's most annoying feature is that its email client > > (Evolution 1.4.6) is buggy and has somehow gotten worse; I've let my > > mail file get large and now it no longer allows me to empty the trash > > folder. I wanted to try a newer version of Evolution, but they all have > > too many dependencies; I can't even get the configure script to finish. > > Then I remembered someone mentioning Balsa, whose name implies "light > > weight", so I thought, this should be easier. I didn't have to add a > > lot of libraries to get the configure script to run, but the stupid > > thing won't compile, due to missing header files. It started out with a > > file that I found in one of the Debian *-dev source packages, which then > > required another, and then another. After downloading and installing at > > least 20 of these packages, I finally come to a dead end: gtkhtml-dev. > > It has versions only for fink, maemo, and freebsd. There's supposedly a > > gtkhtml-devel package in the SuSE hierarchy but those links to that are > > broken. Does anybody know why a package like this would be impossible > > to find with Google? Or can anybody suggest a less painful alternative > > email client? > > > > Thanks, > > Vaughn > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss