[PlanetCCRMA] Dependancies of non-planetccrma apps

[Juan Reyes]

Hi Carr,

Usually rpm looks for dependencies and let you know if there are
conflicts. If you use binary or source rpms to update Xemacs or Openoffice
you should not have a problem. If you downloaded OpenOffice from their
site, it has a special executable installer program which will install the
whole program either as network (workstation) installation or user
installations. I like network installation. As far as Xemacs things might
trickier depending on whether you are compiling the sources or installing
binaries. I would suggest trying to use a Xemacs rpm. You can find
relatively new versions at rpmfind.net but make sure you download one for
redhat73. But still I wonder why do you want to update Xemacs. The version
that comes with RedHat is fairly recent. Apt-Get looks for version 
numbers, dates or whatever to update (upgrade) packages once it downloads 
a package it runs rpm to install it.

  --* Juan


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Carr Wilkerson wrote:

> I was wondering how the apt-get dependancy tracking is affected by 
> installation of non-planet ccrma supported software (i.e. OpenOffice, 
> xemacs). And are there any things that I must consider when installing 
> other apps with rpm wrt my yummy new planet ccrma setup?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carr
> 
>