Re: [edlug] new linux users

[Andrew Beames <pro110@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Re: RPMs
I've found the same problem with SuSE8 and YAST(2) - If I install other 
packages YAST wont recognise them - and therefore it thinks some of the 
package dependencies are broken.
However, after I'd installed a few RPMs the keyboard way, I happened upon a 
GUI tool called Kpackage that shows all the packages I've installed and is 
actually easier to use than YAST. I don't use RH so a.n.other will have to 
comment on whether it was actually available to you, but it's a start...

Re: New User
One advantage of using RH as your first distro is that there tends to be a lot 
of companion Linux books that cover it. In fact if you wander down to PCWorld 
you'll probably find a (Red Hat Unleashed/Red Hat Bible) book with a distro 
CD in the back. Sorted!

An aside:
In my (brief) experience I've found Mandrake to be better than SuSE at 
recognising hardware and configuring the first install, but armed with the 
(huge) volumes of books that come with a boxed SuSE distro and a printout of 
the sysinfo text from Windows, I've (so far) managed to overcome the initial 
disadvantage SuSE has, so I've stuck with it.



Andrew.


On Monday 02 December 2002 23:47, Alistair J Ross wrote:
<snip>
> I have only one *major* gripe with RH8 after using it for around 1 month
> now: The 'Add/Remove Packages Wizard', which is essentially Add/Remove
> Programs (ala Win XP). However, it has a major caveat in that if you
> install any Third party RPM (ie you download it from Red Hat's FTP, or
> from somewhere like freshrpms.net or rpmfind.net) you will find that the
> package manager does not list that software as it's not from the Red Hat
> CD. This leaves the beginner user right back at the command shell having
> to type rpm -e or whatever to deal with packages.
>
> Whilst I can understand that Red Hat will want to unify their
> distribution as much as possible, I can't really see how this will
> benefit the distribution long term, as RH seem to apply ever-more power
> into seeking Windows leavers. My suggestion to Red Hat on this point
> would to add a seperate section to the Add/Remove Packages wizard which
> lists all of the RPMs installed that do not match the RPM list from the
> Red Hat 8.0 CDs. Anyone else not think this would be a sensible idea?
</snip>
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