Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

[sturla <sturla@lundkommisjonen.no>]

Marc Wilson wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>  
>
> > Gak!  And send him into Dependency Hell?
> >    
>
> That's nonsense.  People like to throw that crap out, but users cause it
> for themselves when they install RPM's from random places, same as Debian
> users cause it for themselves when they install DEB's from random places.
>
> Not that I recommend DeadRat to anyone, but Joe User isn't going to be
> going to rpmfind.net or anywhere else and installing random junk.
>
>  
Ok, maybe it's just me beeing fucking stupid, I don't know, but I have 
found that
RPM's from the original cd works just fine, but when trying to upgrade 
to something
newer than whats on the original install-cd you run into problems.
I once tried to upgrade gnome via RPMs, after a few rounds of having to 
go online to
downloads new dep's I had two screens of dep-errors....
As I currently run some RedHat systems I would be happy if you could 
tell me how
to avoid this.

Sturla