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[Leon]

Joe Woods wrote in message
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>It would be nice if rpm -i xxx *was* the same as setup.exe, but
>setup.exe doesn't usually give meaningless error messages 90% of the
>time like "cannot link to..." blah blah blah...
>
>

That's one of the till I didn't like about rpm.  I must say I was using an
old Mandrake (7.0) so I'm sure the later ones have improved rpm.

I just installed Debian and so far I like it's installation of programs.  If
it detects an error it tell you what it was looking for and then ask you if
you want to installs the missing files.  That's assuming you have them.  If
not it appears it refuses to install if it can't find the missing files.  I
haven't had much time with Debian so I'm still learning it.

Leon


>Klementa David <xkleme00 na stud.fee.vutbr.cz> wrote in message
news:<Pine.BSF.4.44.0205140918000.13353-100000 na fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz>...
>> Hi
>>
>> isn't 'rpm -i package.rpm' almost the same as 'setup.exe'??? ;o)
>>
>> Bye David
>>
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