I had already read about that one (here on the list) [elf-x11r6lib] so knew that it was necessary to "force" for that one.
Who is using "comerr" or comerrg"? And what are the coflicts? Nevermind, doing dpkg --status on comerr2g makes it is clear to me that I need to take a close look at what is going on here on this machine... I have to wonder if any of the users of hamm have the "feeling" that hamm is more solid than bo? best, -bill On 5 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"bleach" == bleach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bleach> As to a general opinion concerning stability, the hamm base > bleach> system has not given me any trouble. The problems that I have > bleach> seen are most often related to installing or further upgrading > bleach> packages. > > bleach> I suppose that like about anyone that is cocky enough to > bleach> believe that they "know their way around Unix (and therefore > bleach> Linux)", I several times used "force" with dpkg or > bleach> dselect--and usually regretted it. > > Heh. Yes, if you use "force", all bets are off. > > bleach> What I am finding with hamm however is that dependencies are > bleach> often not correct and that it seems that you must aften force > bleach> dselect. This is definately an "uncomfortable" thing for me > bleach> now but unless there is something else that I am missing it is > bleach> required. > > That is not necesarrily the case. I run pure hamm (espescially > since I re-installed hamm after loosing my disk (due to mechanical > failure). I have 999 packages, done using dselect, all except the > following, which depend on elf-x11r6lib (which is gone now, these > packages are sadly out of date). Except for these 8 packages, no > "force" was used. And these are the only packages to show up on my > problems list. > > *** Opt contrib/ xosview Fun to watch CPU/network usage programme > > *** Opt contrib/ xtar-smotif xtar - Motif front end for tar, with static > libXm > *** Opt libs tk40 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.0 - Run-Time > Pa > *** Opt libs tk41 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.1 - Run-Time > Pa > *** Opt non-free xarchie X11 browser interface to archie > > *** Opt non-free chimera X11 World-Wide Web Client > > *** Opt non-free xforms-dev GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems > > *** Opt non-free xforms0.86 GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems > > > I am sorry for your problems, but Hamm does work -- as long as > you don't second guess the system when you do not know what you are > doing. (ignoring dependencies on elf-x11r6lib is the only thing I'd > suggest is safe). > > manoj > sync'ed up till wednesday the 4th > -- > "The alternative to mutual trust, which is indeed a risky gamble, is > the security of the police state." Alan Watts > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> > Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
