From: Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com> > When you ran smart start did you select the Linux option? > What kind of Compaq is it? I didn't run it - someone else did. And I think they selected the "screw you hippie" option, because that's the vibe I'm getting. That's a choice right? :) From: Troy.A Johnson <troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us> > About the RPM thing, try to put all the packages > and dependent packages on the "rpm -e" line > and see if that works out. The same should work > for installing mutually dependent packages. Thanks. I'll give that a try when the box stops smoking and I pick all the pieces up from the pavement 5 floors down. From: Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy at veldy.net> > So ... do you use Gentoo ? :) HERETIC! Just for that I shall slander you back: Thomas Veldhouse likes SCO! :) From: Scot Jenkins <scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net> > apparently you've never had the pleasure of patching and HPUX system. I > think they invented the circular dependency thing. No, not HSUX (thank god) - but AIX is annoyingly similar. Sorry everyone, I'm in one of those moods. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications _______________________________________________ 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