Gene Heskett wrote: > > I just swore off of livna, once you have a livna rpm installed, its > dependencies absolutely preclude updating anything else. Is there not an > equ from freshrpms, dries, or atrpms? > > I'm trying to maintain a semiworking system here, but if I nuke everything > from livna, I doubt if it would even reboot. So out of this list, what > is safe to 'rpm -e --nodeps' and then reinstall from one of the other > repo's? > You might want to install SMART and use it to make the replacements. I am still learning it, but one thing I like is that it will display the packages from all the repo's next to each other, with the installed one in green. It will then let you pick the package from another rope, and un-install from the first. As long as the new package will fill the dependencies of the old package, it will replace one package with the other. It will also pop up a list of packages that would get removed if you remove a package, and let you change your mind. You can even "downgrade" a package to an older version. It doesn't completely eliminate the dependencies problem, but id does make change what repo a package comes from a bit easier. Now, if it would only let you see the repo and the description at the same time... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
