[PLUG] Dependency Hell

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Mon Oct 27 08:23:01 UTC 2003


On Sunday 26 October 2003 8:51 pm, Robert Kopp wrote:
> I think it's a good idea to have two installations of
> Linux on one's system, in case one needs to be worked
> on while it's not active. Hard drives tend to be huge
> these days, so space is not a problem. One of my
> distributions is Mandrake. In fact, it's the download
> version of 9.0.
>
> I have tried to install SANE and Gnomemeeting RPM's on
> this installation, but without success. There are
> unsatisfied dependencies.
>
> I'm thinking about getting the retail version of 9.2,
> which is about ready to ship. Perhaps it would have
> the needed files, and thereby save a lot of time. Does
> anyone have comments on this?
>

I'm not sure this will help. Mandrake has been pretty good with scanners since 
version 8. Are you using urpmi? That's usually pretty good at resolving 
dependencies, lots better than RPM.

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