smart package mgr question?

[Scott Berry]

Just do a yum smart-tray and you should get it.  I got it last night just 
fine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: smart package mgr question?


> On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:24, Kam Leo wrote:
>>On 10/1/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:25:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> > > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> > > >True, but ... the classical situation when apt/smart try to
>>> > > > downgrade is resolving broken package deps inside of an installed
>>> > > > system. apt and smart diagnose them and try to resolve them (by
>>> > > > downgrading), yum doesn't diagnose these problems and lets users
>>> > > > believe "everything is OK", while it actually isn't.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >I.e. the fact yum doesn't complain, doesn't mean it is right.
>>> > >
>>> > > I have run into problems where apt tries to fix the repository
>>> > > issues and fails and doesnt let me perform other operations like
>>> > > updating a package which is completely unrelated to repo breakages.
>>> >
>>> > That's true, apt always checks the global health of your system and
>>> > bails out if it detects something broken to alert the user. That is a
>>> > debatable policy (there is no technical reason to do so) mostly
>>> > because it doesn't allow you to use apt anymore to fix the breakage.
>>>
>>> I yum installed smart and now when I try to invoke it I get this..
>>> [root at iam ~]# smart --gui
>>> error: Interface 'gtk' not available
>>>
>>> [root at iam ~]#
>>>
>>> Seems a dependency wasn't considered and I have everything gtk
>>> installed known to yum... via yum install gtk*  ..about 40 megs worth
>>> and I still get this error. Ric
>>
>>Extras has four packages (smart, smart-update, smart-gui, and
>>ksmarttray) available for downloading. You need to install the first
>>three to get full capabilities.
>
> I cannot see ksmarttray in extras.
>
>
Just do a yum smart-tray and you should get it.  I got it last night just 
fine
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