Revisiting RPM Package Management
Posted Sep 18, 2003 15:32 UTC (Thu) by
duck (subscriber, #4444)
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Revisiting RPM Package Management by ladislav
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Revisiting RPM Package Management
Hello,
as I said - there are hardly any third party repositories. SuSEs yast handles
dependencies automatically, but not if the dependency can not be resolved with the
packages available within known repositories.
Have a look at packman.links2linux.de.
There you will find lots of updated multimedia rpms for different SuSE versions. If you
select one package, YAST is launched and you can install it directly from the web - if
there are no dependencies that can only be solved by installing another third-party
rpm. Since this is hardly the case with multimedia rpms, the feature is not very useful
for these rpms.
Nevertheless, yast detects dependecies, tries to solve them and even allows you to
force the installation of a package. The capabilities are there, but not the repositories.
Cheers
duck
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