[wplug] RedHat RPM Questions.

[William Powell]

Alex, thanks for the response.  Yea, I figured RH 9 wouldn't help other 
than a lot of the newer dependencies might be resolved for me.

I am using IceWM now on this laptop and it is acceptable for most tasks. 
(Openoffice not included. It works fine, good for generating coffee 
breaks and such.)

I did some more googling myself:

http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/aptget.html

Which I will also try tonite.


Bill



Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

>On Wednesday 30 July 2003 20:40, William Powell wrote:
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>>Does Redhat (8) have a tool that will attempt to locate and install all
>>dependencies that need to be resolved?  This would be something similar
>>to the apt-get for Debian or urpmi for mandrake.
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>Red Hat, strangely enough, do not use any such tool. You could use apt4rpm
>http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
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><snip>
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>>trouble just getting X to run on this laptop so I am not sure I want to
>>upgrade the OS version any further.  Gnome take about 4 minutes to load.
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>Upgrading to Red Hat 9 wouldn't buy you anything. Might I suggest using a less 
>memory/CPU demanding window manager than Gnome? (let's not start a 200-post 
>thread on which window manager is best - the list archives have abundant 
>information)
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>-A
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