smart package mgr question?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 01:24:35 UTC 2006


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.




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