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OHA AHAAHAHAHAHAHA it crashed and burned all right!! AHAHA all i did was install gnome-desktop package using urpmi and now i can't even log in using the GUI i anymore....oh the life of a linux newb...
Don't forget the camera! You are going to run into problems like that if you install 1 package at a time. I've never used the --auto-select thing, I just:
urpmi packagename (example: urpmi mplayer) and then it goes and fetches the package(s) for me, installs em, and I'm running. With your desktop environments there is quite a bit involved, so you will have quite a few packages that "intermingle" with each other. Don't leave 1 out. You will have quite the packages to update, but once it's done you'll have a new X server, and almost a whole new system.
Did you hear about that night club that burned down? I saw some video of that, nothing like a computer fire...
Yes. You will definitely want to. Linux runs a system of sharing everything. The main reason you'll ever run into "Dependency Hell" is because of this. It's actually a good thing, saves time, easier to produce apps, and so on. lib's are a very important part of any program.
So yes, you'll want the libs.
Sorry for the humor on your computer burning, I was in a funny mood yesterday
question since I have the exact same problem (see 'weird elongated login gui'): to do this urpmi thing is all I do is in the command prompt type 'urpmi gnome' and hit enter and sit back and let it run?
NO ..just typing in urpmi gnome will list all the file names with gnome in it....u look at this list, select a file and then type in urpmi *newpackagename*
just in case I'm missing something, here's my output from urpmi gnome, do I have to go through, one at a time, and install these packages, there seems to be a farkload and to do each one seperately will take a long time, any sort of automation?
I was just going to copy and paste this into a terminal, but I think screenshots do more justice, so I'll boot back into my server distro and host em up... I think I should get a cookie for this!
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Don't forget the camera! You are going to run into problems like that if you install 1 package at a time. I've never used the --auto-select thing, I just:
