[techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 0.16.4

[colin parr]

Well, you know what they say: If you think something's foolproof you've got 
to remember not to underestimate the ingenuity of the common fool...

I have installed rpms from the command line before but not very often so I 
wasn't familiar with the options you can use which you don't in gnorpm etc.. 
In particular being able to query 'imlib' to get the version back rather 
than in gnorpm finding imlib-0.98 rpm or whatever, querying that and getting 
'0.98' which doesn't tell anything you didn't know already (least I'm 
assuming you can't do this - I didn't see an option anywhere).

Anyways it's all working now, need to get my eterm and EFM installed so I 
can stop using the gnome tools (not a flamewar comment btw, I just want to 
get everything looking the same).

Interestingly everything seems to be running a lot quicker although I can't 
say how much of this is the new version of enlightenment or the fact that 
I've upgraded to Xfree86 4.0 and have stopped running gnome at the same time 
as enlightenment - bit of a duplication of effort.

Thanks again,
Colin.


>From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm at commsecure.com.au>
>To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
>Subject: Re: [techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 
>0.16.4
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:21:43 +1000
>
>On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:31:44AM -0700, colin parr wrote:
> > Right on both counts!  I was doing the install thru gnorpm and was 
>messing
> > it up royally, the dot files bit was needed too.
>
>Oh dear! I would have thought (hoped?) it was harder to mess up the rpm 
>database
>using gnorpm than using the command line. I didn't even think of mentioning 
>it
>in my previous post because I tend to always use the command line for
>installing stuff, but had I thought of it, I would have recommended you use 
>it.
>Disappointing to know you can still mess up a sane installation with it.
>
>Cheers,
>Malcolm
>
>--
>Malcolm Tredinnick            email: malcolm at commsecure.com.au
>CommSecure Pty Ltd
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