[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian

[Terry]

On 6/23/05, Peter A. Koren <p.koren at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Terry, you raise a good point. I have had it with the brain dead rpm
> "dependency hell". I will be switching from Mandrake to another -- or
> other -- distribution(s). I have been trying to install SciPy, the
> Scientific Python package for Linux and have run into one roadblock
> after another. After trying to set up Mandrake's URPMI install manager
> for the 6 CD Power Pack version of 10.1 by adding each disk to be
> considered a source, the manager complained that the dependency files
> were missing from some of those disks.

urpmi works best when set up to install from the web
http://www.linuxfordummies.org/addmedia/