How will I know which packages to install?

bongski55 · 10-27-2003, 09:04 AM

My question may sound strange to some of you but I have just installed 9.1 and was surpirised to have an "incomplete" kde inspite of my checking the kde during the install process.I do not have kppp,my preferrred dialler. As you can see from my member description I have also used slackware and in slackware installation I select kde and everything is installed.
Imagine my surprise when I tried to install kppp. I had to put in disk 3 and disk 1! Why does it have to break-up kde packages and scatter it around the 3 disks?

salparadise · 10-27-2003, 09:31 AM

when the 9.1 install is near to the end
it gives you a summary,
if you configure the dialup connection at this point
kppp is installed for you

though for some strange reason it doesn't always show up in the menu at first

but i know what you mean, installing pretty much anything extra requires cd juggling

bongski55 · 10-27-2003, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by salparadise
when the 9.1 install is near to the end
it gives you a summary,
if you configure the dialup connection at this point
kppp is installed for you

though for some strange reason it doesn't always show up in the menu at first

but i know what you mean, installing pretty much anything extra requires cd juggling

Thanks for the reply.
I purposely did not configure dialup because I had to manually install the driver for my winmodem.
which brings me back to my original question: How will somebody new to mandrake know which package to install? Mandrake seems to have a strange way of breaking up packages-for example the kdenetwork which is on cd 1 and a kde network-kppp which is in cd 3.

salparadise · 10-28-2003, 01:03 AM

the nice ppl at "linux" have thought of that
if you try to install something one of two things will hapen
either a box appears and says "you must install a,b,c & so on"
or a box appears and says
"not without file a,b & c being present first"

at least
that's the way it works with mandrake/redhat
things appear to "scattered" but may actually have a purpose in being that way
for example
you can get mandrake up and running with only 2 cd's (the first 2)
and i met a person here t'other day who had mandrake running from only 1 cd
so
there must be levels and careful planning in this

bongski55 · 10-28-2003, 02:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by salparadise
the nice ppl at "linux" have thought of that
if you try to install something one of two things will hapen
either a box appears and says "you must install a,b,c & so on"
or a box appears and says
"not without file a,b & c being present first"

This is true if you are adding after installation. But this does not happen during installation. Also this is also true if you KNOW what to install,but for somebody new to linux it would be a big thing. Like me I happen to know I need kppp as my dialer so I searched for 'kppp'.

I do not want to start a debate here for or against mandrake here but I am a bit disappointed because I read a lot here that mandrake is supposed to be easier than others.