Re: [Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

I wouldn't recommend updating a full install with a demo version. I did
that once. it trashed all the dependancies so nothing would install with
out --nodeps, and then I had to figure out the deps myself. Not good.


Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Sun, 28 May 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> 
> Evening boys n' girls,
> 
> "What have you been up to?", I hear you all ask.  Well, let me tell you
> all my adventures starting with yesterday evening... 
> 
> I found a libjpeg.rpm at Caldera's site, but that crashed X, so I
> thought "there MUST be a RPM at SuSE".  Sure enough, a couple of hours
> later I'd found: libjpeg-6.2.0-62.i386.rpm.  Perfect I thought.  One
> command later and I found that Netscape 6 ran, yes really, but crashed
> everytime I touched anything.  "Ooh, that's funny, Kmail doesn't work, and
> Electric Eyes doesn't display any .jpg images, and The Gimp has gone a
> bit funny..." etc etc.  I logged out and back in to X, and nothing, again
> I logged out, but this time as my girlfriend (she prefers KDE you
> see) and, of course X again freaked out.  I've removed the new RPM  and
> put the old one back in and am now sobbing violently at my desk...
> 
> A thought:  I remember from the meeting a couple of months ago(?), that
> nice man from SuSE handing out trial versions of SuSE 6.4.  Has anyone
> still got one, and could they do me a copy?  Of course, I'll pay expenses
> etc etc:  I've just remembered the Update System option when you boot with
> it.  Surely nothing can go wrong that way.  Can it?
> 
> Thanks to everyone who took the time & energy to respond to this
> thread.  Is there anything more I can do, or is this a big full stop?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Harvey
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