Re: Reinstalling Package modules on Madriva 10.2 after removing gtk

chris.lyon_at_spritenote.co.uk
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: 31 Aug 2005 09:20:59 -0700

The package installer is the gui interfaced tool that handles the
installing & removal of packages. It installs by default and I now know
it is dependant on Gtk & probably one or two other things. Now as to
why gcc has disappeared I don't know . All I know is that it has gone
as well. After removing gtk using the tool, gcc is no longer present.
I have done nothing else and feel that a repair should be possible. I
assume rpm is what sits at the bottom of all this and since I am
running Mandriva as a GUI environment I am keen to use the GUI tools as
soon as I can get them running, Unfortunately I do not know what they
are called or indeed where they are stored on the system because they
have been the very tools I have used to do this sort of maintenance so
I have had little cause to run them from the command line. I am really
in pursuit of an unknown number of rpm files and their locations.

 I posted this as 'dragged down by the bootstraps' and have reposted
because I felt the tone probably grated on some people's sensibilites,
so I will not reiterate the original problem of trying to install
wxpython onto the machine.(This is probably neither the time or the
place to mention this but I had this up and running on Windows XP in
approximately 10 minutes). I am keen to use Linux as I don't believe
you should keep all your eggs in one basket but perhaps I am being
optimistic.
In retrospect I should post this on a Mandriva specific group, but I
chose this one because it seemed to be both active and relevent and the
Mandriva name change seems to have led to a certain degree of
fragmentation.

In reply to Mr Breuer,
If you are kind enough to help then that is wonderful. If you feel that
this is another newbie asking daft questions then at least have the
good grace to aid and try to resist the tempation to use patronising
expressions when you have little understanding of the actual
predicament. I have devoted the best part of a day or so to addressing
this and so find your attitude at best, disappointing. I have areas
of expertise that you might have need of at some future date and if you
treat all people unfamiliar with a world, that even you must admit is
often counter-intuative, in this way then the very area of expertise
you are wedded to will gradually fade away. No offence intended

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