Mandrake/Mandriva dependancy handeling...

[Philip Kay]

Lance,

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 12:44 -0400, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> My Wife is running a Mandriva desktop, and is trying to install a 
> program she downloaded.
> 
> The program is having dependency issues. Is there a program on Mandriva 
> that will sort this out for her?
> 
> I usually use YUM or Apt-Get on my FC4 systems to avoid this, but was 
> unable to locate such for Mandrake in the past...
> 

I think urpmi is one of the best for this. Set up external sources using
this website: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

Once you have that in place installing applications is as easy as "urpmi
<packagename>" or "urpmi *.rpm"

Even better, you can upgrade versions of Mandriva without a reboot using
urpmi (if you skip kernel).

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