Re: [Pan-users] Re: 'Old' Pan for PCLinuxOS?

[Glenn]

On Friday 15 February 2008 12:07:01 Maurice wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 18:23:15 Duncan wrote:
> > Interesting.  So all you needed was an rpm handler?  I thought pclinuxos
> > was based on mandr(ake|iva), and thus rpm based already, and that it
> > followed that it had rpm handling built-in?  Is that incorrect?
>
>    Not really. It does have RPM, but for some reason  'rpm -i <package>'
> caused "Cannot obtain lock" errors. Nothing to do with dependencies.
>
>   Mandriva has URPMI.  PCLinuxOS has KPackage (which hooks into Konqueror).
>

Actually, PCLinuxOS uses Synaptic as the GUI for the RPMs, which would have 
taken care of the dependencies for you, no problem.  And, so far as the 
Mandriva-ness of it is concerned, it's steadily drifted from that over the 
last several major releases.




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