APT, YUM, Synaptic and the like
Alright, guys...I'm back. Again. No, for real this time. I swear.
Okay, here's the deal:
I've been trying to get some NES emulators to work on my Linux machine, which was running Suse 9.0. I had failures with most of them, because they depended on packages which dependend on packes and so on until I was sick of it.
I finally found one Emulator from an RPMs website that should've worked with only one package install. I got it to work, except it said it still needed ATRpm >= 18. I installed their latest kick-start package, and I was surprised to see it still didn't work.
I downloaded APT to solve my problem, and THAT needed other packages, as well as YUM. Of course, Synaptic doesn't work without those packages.
When I installed Suse, I had nearly everything in there installed so as to avoid this sort of problem as much as possible. Yet it persists, although a few hundred packages, including some of the nicer ones, demanded to be included manually. ::Sigh:: So I skipped those that wouldn't be included with the rest of their groups.
I'm getting ready to install and check out Fedora (I figure its worth a shot atleast,) but if that doesn't work out I'll try Debian and possibly switch back to Suse.
Does anyone know exactly why I had this problem, and what I can do to solve it in the future? As soon as I get home I'll check on the package dependencies so that I can post those as well, perhaps I just missing one ginormous package...although the kick-start packages should have covered almost everything.
Anyway, let me know what you guys think.
Dang its good to be back at AO!
