There is no such thing as dependancy hell, you're simply doing it wrong.


http://apt.freshrpms.net


Do you manually run dpkg to install KDE on Debian? No, you use a package
manager.

RedHat also comes with an excellent package manager (GUI), or you can
use up2date (CLI).


On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:22:40AM -0600, Matt Murphy wrote:
> 
> 	folks, I'm trying to get ODBCConfig going, which is a KDE
> program, so I can connect to our MSSQL server from php. I run gnome, and
> after installing the unixODBCConfig rpm, I get nothing. So I think I'll
> try installing KDE, but I get an error message that it's missing like 10
> different dependencies. It took me an hour to resolve just the first
> one, and one of them is xinitd which is obviously already installed and
> working. Am I doing something wrong? Do real people actually deal with
> this crap just to get something installed??? Is there an easier way to
> solve dependency problems? (isn't the stupid installer supposed to be
> able to do that?) 
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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