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This was pre DNF/YUM days. RedHat could be a pain installing stuff from RPM’s that had crazy dependencies back in the day.
by vondur 4y ago
This was pre DNF/YUM days. RedHat could be a pain installing stuff from RPM’s that had crazy dependencies back in the day.
- emilsedgh 4y agoFirst time I installed Linux, I was trying to Gaim on it. I managed to compile Gaim before I managed to install it from RPM packages. Using Debian was a moment of pure epiphany. Good times.
- noisy_boy 4y agoI remember using Mandrake (later Mandriva) - it also used rpm. Dependency hell was an issue there too; it probably had to do with state of rpm more than the distro itself.
- quags 4y agoDependency hell was a thing for sure. I had at the time made a script to easily install rpm's at with a shell script that was searching the mirrors. It didn't handle dependencies but would show what was missing. But so many years later now looking back, a big issue was really just a lack of understanding of rpms with all the other os's with rpms, different arcs and versions. yum was a welcome changed especially since apt had for so long solved dependency issues.
- ape4 4y agoup2date was before then