newbie needing big help

[Jonathan Metts]

Success...so far.  Well, I went back and checked the two dependency
problems, one I definitly didn't need, the other was questionable. 
Anyway I decided to be a little ballsy, I mean if I had to reinstall
everything, who cares, I have experience at least in the YDL
installation disk, so I used the --nodeps otion in the removal.  I did a
test run on the install, and had 3 dep problems.  I said screw it and
used --nodeps again.  Everything installed, and voila, after typing
"satrtx" it booted just fine. I hope those dep issues don't come back to
haunt me though.

If it is ok, could someone explain the whole dep thing to me...is it
simply that one program might depend on another simply to be able to
run?

Thanks for the help...I will be needing soem more, so I hope this list
doesn't mind me using it to help learn Linux.

Much appreciation!  Any suggestions on where in the Linux system would
be good to start trying to tweak for my system...I know the kernel is
off limits to me right now, but I would like to use one of the benh
kernels, it seems as though many PPC people prefer his.  Any
suggestions, I want my G4 to fly, so I can use Linux solely.

Current neccessities:
	Print Capabilities
	CD rom issues - says "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block 		device"
	Use second Processor - I downloaded and installed the SMP one 		off the
YDL site, but didn't see any improvement
		Should I?
	


On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 09:39, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> >I am a fresh linux newbie, having installed my first linux system about
> >a week ago...YDL 2.2.
> 
> Just an initial comment. If you're a newbie, I say press forward and 
> see what happens. The best thing that can happen to you right now is 
> for you to hose your system. You'll learn a lot about it in the 
> process. And the reinstalls become easier and easier :-) If for some 
> reason you can't -afford- to hose it -and- you are a rank newbie, you 
> may be in over your head at this point.
> 
> >Anyway, my problems are many right now, but I am going to focus on one
> >at the time...KDE 3.0.
> 
> I would agree with Ryan, cutting your teeth on this one may be a bit 
> much to chew. But what the hell.
> 
> >[root@linni RPMS]# rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde` koffice SDL-devel
> >error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
> >	libDCOP.so.1   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	libkdecore.so.3   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	libkdesu.so.1   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	libkdeui.so.3   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	libkio.so.3   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	libkssl.so.2   is needed by kio-mac-1.0-1a
> >	kdemultimedia   is needed by autorun-2.61-5
> >	kdebase   is needed by autorun-2.61-5
> >[root@linni RPMS]#
> 
> As these things go, this is pretty good. There are really only 2 
> dependencies here. Here is how I would proceed (I used to hose 
> -something- doing these things, and every time, I figured out a lot).
> 
> What you're trying to do here is remove KDE2 first, and it's 
> believable that there are a couple of other things that will need to 
> go too. So first, what are kio and autorun? (we're looking to see 
> what might happen if we remove them). I don't have kio installed, so 
> I don't know what it is; do 'rpm -qi kio-mac-1.0-1a' to find out. 
> Likewise with autorun shows it is safe to remove it first (IMHO). So
> 
> 'rpm -e kio-mac-1.0-1a' first will remove the first 6 deps.
> 'rpm -e autorun-2.61-5' first will remove the last 2.
> 
> And your original rpm -e instruction should then work.
> 
> >Should i force it with the "nodeps" option,
> 
> Bolder users would indeed cast the original instruction as 'rpm -e 
> --nodeps ...' which will override the dependency warnings.
> 
> >and if so,
> >what command do I use to install the new kde.
> 
> This is a different ball game. I always begin with 'rpm -Uhv --test 
> ...' to see what messages appear. If none, go ahead. If messages 
> appear, deal with them first.
> 
> Stefan Jeglinski
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