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

[Glenn]

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 06:38:03 Glenn wrote:
> 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.

Oops.  Just remembered that you were speaking of Old-Pan.  That's not in the 
repositories, hence the problems.  For normally resident programs in the 
repositories, Synaptic _would_ have been the correct answer to the question.  
In your case, that wasn't a viable path.  Sorry for the noise.


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