Mandrake's base

newbiesforever · 04-21-2006, 01:36 PM

Did Mandrake ever switch to being Debian-based? I heard that it was going to at some point.

reddazz · 04-21-2006, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by newbiesforever

Did Mandrake ever switch to being Debian-based? I heard that it was going to at some point.

It was just a rumour that was denied by the Mandriva devs.

newbiesforever · 04-21-2006, 09:26 PM

That's too bad, because for some reason, I like Debian-based distributions the best. Possibly because I've had the best luck with Xandros and Knoppix; also possibly because I like distros that fit on one disc, and Xandros, Knoppix and MEPIS (and possibly others) do.

GlennsPref · 04-21-2006, 09:43 PM

If you like the way dpkg works, try synaptic

Helps to find and replace broken installs of packages too.

Deps include,

synaptic-0.57.2-1mdk.i586.rpm

libapt-pkg0-0.5.15cnc6-10mdk.i586.rpm

dpkg-1.10.21-1mdk.i586.rpm

apt-common-0.5.15cnc6-10mdk.i586.rpm

apt-0.5.15cnc6-10mdk.i586.rpm

This will work in parallel with mdk's installer.

Though I do remember some trouble finding the right packages,

I think some had to be installed with "nodeps" and "force"

Any good advice will be in the form of, "DON'T DO IT", but it worked for me!