Reinstalling Package modules on Madriva 10.2 after removing gtk 4650

into the Black Sun and said:

Include context when you post to Usenet. That never-to-be-sufficiently- damned Google "permanent alpha" excuse for a Usenet client can be made to do that if you kick it hard enough. Read CBFalconer's .sig for directions. Context restored:

Um... why? Oh well, Consider this a Learning Experience, sort of like touching a hot stove.

Yes. No problem, there's another command-line interface to the package system used in Redhat-derived distros. That's theusr-bin-rpm command. "man rpm" may be a little too much to digest, but IIRC Mandrake had a hack on the side that automatically resolved dependencies. urpmi or yum or something like that. Check your dead trees; I don't use Mandrake so can't tell you what it is exactly.

Get your distro CDs (or DVD, or whatever) and go find the GTK+ RPM. It'll match *gtk*.rpm . Then "rpm -Uvh gtk-1.2.3.rpm". That should install GTK+. If it doesn't, rpm will spit out "unresolved dependencies: gtk-1.2.3 depends on glib-2.3.4..." which means you need to rpm -Uvh glib*.rpm first. Iterate until all dependencies are resolved. yum or urpmi or whatever can *greatly* speed up this process.

That is weird. gcc has no dependencies on GTK+, so your initial statement "I removed gtk and all its dependants" doesn't seem to explain that. Did you have gcc selected via Ctrl-click in a list or something?

Anything's possible. The question is how much time and effort you're willing to put into it.

Yes. RPM = teh suck IMHO, since I've used apt and portage and I find them much easier to deal with.

You've uninstalled GTK+, so a metric arseload of the GUI stuff *won't* *work* until you reinstall that with rpm-yum-urpmi-whatever. Never rely on a GUI for the important stuff. That'll bite you in the butt eventually.

alt.os.linux.mandrake is still up, and it would've been a simple thing to cross-post there.

Peter T. Breuer is one of this newsfroup's resident Grumpy Gurus. I don't think he can avoid being patronizing. Maybe that's what academia does to some people....

He knows what's up. His problem was that he expected you to be more send than you apparently are. He does that with everybody though.

That certainly wasn't clear in the original message. Prepare to be disappointed with large pieces of Usenet. The people with knowledge often cop an atbreastude because they get irritated with the rafts of clueless n00b questions. Nothing personal, just that individual people can be pleasant to deal with and howling mbuttes can be absolute hell.

Um... it's a big Net out there, and even if you're the foremost world authority on Underwater Basketweaving, there are plenty of other semi-pros out there. (In other words, don't try the "I'm Rick James, unpleasant woman!" approach on Usenet. It just doesn't work.)

Peter doesn't have to care; he's probably got tenure. So... try the rpm thing I mentioned above and see how well that works. If you can reinstall GTK and Glib, you may be able to get the GUI-frontend for RPM up, and then you can proceed in a way that's more familiar to you. HTH,

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