Linux books for DFS 16753

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:23:52 -0400, DFS

Something was pear-shaped, but since I've never met the situation myself, I can't tell you what, precisely. It shouldn't be asking about dependencies if you're just starting the GUI to list installed packages. Strange. Possibly a misconfiguration of urpmi.

Hmm, haven't come across that particular one before. It shouldn't cause that sort of problem. Even when you try to install something requiring dependencies, it should simply inform you of the fact, and ask if you want to install them. That's what I did the other day.

You ought to have chosen a couple of other repositories, updates (I think it is) and plf at least. I usually go for one of each except cooker. In most cases you don't get a conflict if you choose similar mirrors for as many as you can. You can always remove or add them if they cause trouble later, using urpmi - it's a fairly simple process: Man urpmi will give you the run-down.

Yes, Mandrake-Mandriva's in particular is excellent. It's parbreastioning gui tool is the best I've seen so far, very clear and easy to understand and use.

if you get Solaris installed, let me know what you make of it; I don't know much about it myself.

-- Kier