Re: Newbie install question

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Jan-2004, Bill Kreamer <address@hidden> wrote:

| I've been using YaST.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Michel" <address@hidden>
| To: "Bill Kreamer" <address@hidden>
| Cc: <address@hidden>
| Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 09:42
| Subject: Re: Newbie install question
| 
| 
| > Suse should have a tool called YasT I think that sgould solvbe your
| > dependecy-problems.
| >
| > Brabants Michel
| >
| > Bill Kreamer wrote:
| >
| > >I recently bought and installed SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal, and found out
| that
| > >both Octave and Gnuplot were missing. I tried downloading rpm's from
| SuSE's
| > >ftp site, but got into a package dependency mess when I tried to install
| > >them. Is there a better way to obtain  and install these two items?

Since you got the RPM files from SuSE, and you are using their
distribution, have you tried asking them how to solve the problem?

I would recommend Debian, but then I would probably get into trouble
with people who prefer other distributions and think that I only care
about what I use...

jwe



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