I agree that yum is very nice. I've even done major upgrades (RH9->CentOS4) using it. Vaughn, which version of Mandrake are you using? According to http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7448, Mandrake 9.2 has it on the distribution disk in contrib/i586/yum-2.0.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm. See article for more details. Stick with it. Once you get yum going, I think you'll love it. Vaughn Treude wrote: > 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 >>> -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- 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