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 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list