Re: [Sheflug] Dumb Redhat Rawhide Question

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Collier <pc [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk> writes:

    Peter> On Monday 11 February 2002 15:38, you wrote: Pretty dumb
    Peter> question, however, if I was to download the Perl-5.6.1-*
    >> packages from a Rawhide mirror, are they drop in replacements
    >> that ship
    Peter> with RH7.2, or is there a world of pain
    >> involved?
    >> 
    >> Baz.

    Peter> Don't know if I'm on the same track as you Baz. When I was
    Peter> running RH7.0, I downloaded upgrades from a Rawhide mirror
    Peter> and used gnorpm to install them. I did at times get many
    Peter> dependancy problems which I got round by listing them and
    Peter> downloading and installing those first. However, I do
    Peter> recall something on the lines of a message that cropped up
    Peter> sometimes, saying, this is a beta version, cannot
    Peter> continue. Don't know if this helps.  On the RH7.2 subject,
    Peter> anyone know how to install or make grip work under a user?
    Peter> If I run grip from a su terminal as root, often the
    Peter> computer crashes after 4 tracks, especially if I'm running
    Peter> something else eg kmail. I have 128meg mem, 256 swap,
    Peter> wouldn't thought it was a memory problem.


Thanks Peter,

I was just wondering if there would be loads of dependancies to
resolve, or if it was possible just to upgrade specific packages
instead of half the distro :)

As far as Grip goes, the standard RH7.2 RPM version works OK.
Just run 'grip' (or select it from a menu) and it should run as a
normal user.

If not, then it might be a permissions issue with your cdrom device.

Cheers.

Baz.


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