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apt for RPM - Calum, you want this!
voidmain:
GLIBC is a big upgrade, you might try and get the SRC RPM for that package and do a rebuild but really I think you are wasting your time trying to get apt to work on Mandrake without having Mandrake repositories. And I couldn't imagine getting the pleasurable experience with apt on a dialup connection.
It is exactly what you are asking for in that it keeps a database of dependencies and knows what packages to install and automatically resolves those dependencies by installing the dependent packages. Problem is, that database/repository doesn't exist for Mandrake that I've been able to find (actually it did for Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 but not for current versions). Seems there are repositories for all the RedHat 7.x and 8.0 series.
Calum:
so you reckon that if i tried to use a red hat repository, i would in effect just make all my mandrake system redundant by eventually installing an entire copy of red hat as well? or am i missing the point?
also, i have 3 CDs of source code, from mandrake 9.0, and i just can't be arsed to go upstairs and open them. maybe i will stop trying to download this clibs thing, as it is taking a while, and i will browse those cds later.
thanks for the comments.
still interested in that bzip situation though, i am curious about how i would have resolved that...
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Calum-21.2:
so you reckon that if i tried to use a red hat repository, i would in effect just make all my mandrake system redundant by eventually installing an entire copy of red hat as well? or am i missing the point?
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No, I just don't believe it will work, but I could be wrong. If it does it would certainly have to download a lot more than if you had a RedHat base (if you are hooked up to a RedHat repository) and an "apt-get dist-upgrade" would probably want to repace your entire Mandrake system with RedHat.
Calum:
:D they should bring it out for windows then.
flap:
Surely you have tcl on the mandrake cds?
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