Re: Software installation woes

From: tom goodman (saturnia_at_globalnet.co.uk)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:21:56 +0000

>
>>Im new to linux and have been running RH 9 for about a year. Now Im at
>>the point that I want to start adding some software to my system.
>>Recently I decided I wanted to install Gnutella. One of the depenent
>>programs needed to acomplish this is GTK. No problem until I saw the
>>dependent packages for the installation of GTK! Glib, ATK, Pango and
>>others...

Well, In my experience a painless way to install this sort of thing is
via Ximian Red Carpet. Install Red-Carpet, subscribe to the RH 9 channel
and select what you want to install. If other components are wanted, Red
Carpet "pulls them in" from its repository...generally this goes through
with no trouble. But DON'T install the red-carpet desktop. In my
experience this does give trouble with packages. Just Red-Carpet. You
need not bother with RPM then-it's just like a windoze installer, but
with more information and better error checking & reversibility.
Good Luck !

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