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Greg Mildenhall wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Steve Grasso wrote:
<br>> Hi Pete,
<br>> On Monday 20 August 2001 10:51, Peter Wright wrote:
<br>> > I'd appreciate it even more if
<br>> > you could tell me (or drop a subtle hint to me :) what the general
<br>> > technique is for working out these sort of dependency issues.
<br>> 1) Aquire patience
<br>> 2) <a href="http://rpmfind.net/">http://rpmfind.net/</a> and search
on the required dependency.
<br>> 3) Grab the best fit RPM. Pray you have the same version of RPM.
<br>> 4) Install/upgrade the package
<br>> 5) Find the next failed dependency
<br>> 6) Deep breaths.....1......2......
<br>> 7) Repeat 2-6 as required or until your system fails to respond
<br>>
<br>> If anyone has a better system, I'd like to hear about it.
<p>I've got Debian.
<p>Well, you asked.
<p>-Greg Mildenhall</blockquote>
Debian is the way to go :)
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