Re: Red Hat 6.1

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> Bob Ham wrote:
> 
> 
> > Unsurprisingly enough, it would seem as though that your wine package
> > depends on the libMesaGL package :)  As it gave you an error in that you
> > didn't have libMesaGL installed, and I assume you haven't installed it
> > from a tarball or otherwise, you need to get libMesaGL.  That either
> > means grabbing the tarball, compiling it and installing or getting an
> > rpm (if there is one.)
> 
> I'll have a look on the CDs again but I didn't find it last time :-(
> 
> 

I thought that packages managers meant you didn't have to search like this
on Distro sets? Under Debian dselect, if a loaded package had dependancies
and those dependancies where part of the distro and not already installed,
they would be selected for you (with option to override, natch). No
searching, just a clean package management system. Isn't it the same with
redhat?

This sort of scratching around for stuff, is what us un-reconstructed
neandethal *.tar.gz source junkies are "happy" doing :-)
We had an discussion on this list not so long ago about the way that pkg
management systems were a "must" to get over exactly this sort of
occurance - mmmmmmm.......

Jim



---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.