Hey,
i'm a relative newbie... all i know is get the rpms- then rpm -i filename and it works...
now i want to upgrade gimp and it tells me i need gtk+ devel, glib devel and on and on....
should be no prob but i'm scared from a past experience... soon after starting with linux i was doing something similar and goofed up my system, had to re-install linux. don't want to go there again
so i've got all these packages and tarballs, fontconfig, glib, gtk+.. about a dozen of em...
will i f#@$ up my system if i try to rpm -i whatever .... then when it says conflicts with package whatever 1.2.0.1 - rpm -e whatever 1.2.0.1 then rpm -i again... this is usually good for simple stuff, but with gtk i'm worried this might cause problems.
is there a particular order to go about upgrading all this gtk stuff?
is there a way to backup system as is so if one of these installs goes awry i can go back to current setup?
i really love my redhat now... i just wanted the new gimp, please help me ugrade this without destroying what i have.