Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0600 or thereabouts, Maher Awamy wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Bruce W. Bigby wrote:
> > 
> > By the way, after I download the latest GNOME (1.0.53), is upgrading as
> > simple as
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> Yes, if you have all the requirments, RPM will sort out all the depandancies
> and install in order. Unless there is a conflict, it'll let you know

One caveat: I have RH 6.1. And I got the October Gnome stuff. And I
ran rpm -U --test *.rpm (to see whether I had everything), and it
told me a bunch of the October Gnome stuff was already installed.
What I didn't realise at first was that that meant it wouldn't
upgrade the rest. 

Rather than use force, I moved all that lot into a subdirectory and 
tried again. That worked fine. A lot of them were development rpms,
but not all. The ones that were apparently up to date were these:

[hobbit@aloss ~/FTP/Rpms/Gnome/Dont]$ ls     
audiofile-0.1.9-1.i386.rpm	      imlib-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
audiofile-devel-0.1.9-1.i386.rpm      imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
extace-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm		      imlib-devel-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
gdm-2.0beta2-13.i386.rpm	      libghttp-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
glade-0.5.3-1.i386.rpm		      libghttp-devel-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
gnome-audio-1.0.0-7.noarch.rpm	      libxml10-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm
gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-7.noarch.rpm  xchat-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
gnome-users-guide-1.0.7-1.noarch.rpm  xscreensaver-3.17-4.i386.rpm

If you have a slow link, you might want to check the version numbers
of what you have and what you're about to download. If you already
have some of this, it will save time. I ran a script in the middle 
of the night to download all of October Gnome, and it took five hours.
(Admitted, all the cron jobs probably kicked off in the middle of 
that, and probably slowed it down even further.)

That, btw, is one reason why I'm glad there are so many smallish packages.
When something new comes out that I particularly want, I only need
to get that and anything it depends on, and not the whole lot again,
which is much more likely when you have a few gigantic packages. 

And I do have a slow link. I don't think it takes everyone that long.
(I hate all of you with cable-modems and ADSL, I do! :))

Telsa, creeping along on the information superhighway's hard shoulder.