Peter Petrakis (peterpan@wn.net)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:43:07 -0500
Glint isn't really a good tool. Kpackage and grpm are much better. I use
kpackage myself.
Peter Petrakis
Bernard Chew, Lai Wan wrote:
>
> I would like to find out why too!
>
> I had the same problem with glint on my RedHat 5.2 installation on an
> alpha SX164. Except I was trying to uninstall packages using glint.
> After clicking on uninstall, there is some activity on the disk &
> then all is silent and glint hangs. After killing & restarting glint,
> the packages I selected for uninstall are indeed removed. But why does
> glint hang in the process?
>
> Bernard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anselm Gademann [SMTP:gademana@tcd.ie]
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 1999 8:36 PM
> Subject: Problems with using RPM on an Alpha 533
>
> I got a preinstalled AlphaPC164UX Computer two days ago and it seemed
> to
> work fine, it still is. But I tried to install some new rpm packages
> and
> I somehow got error messages from the computer.
>
> First I tried to use "glint" to manage the packages and I could see
> all
> of the installed ones in there without any problems. I then tried to
> install another package, but it didn't want to work. The installation
> window somehow hang up and the only thing I cold do was to press the
> x
> in the upper right hand corner. Funny enough the package later on
> appeared in the glint window after restarting glint. But I realised
> that
> much later.
>
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