[Gllug] gaim uninstall/reinstall problem

[Will Napier]

Thats ok, since Formi's recommendation of urpmi is seriously sexy and 
actually worked for me, so now Gaim is nicely installed. Unfortunately 
it hasn't sorted the yahoo glitch yet though.

Bruce Richardson wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:07:25PM +0000, Will wrote:
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>>Grateful thanks to you and all respondents for the valuable advice. And 
>>sorry for not making it clear that I am running Mandrake 9.2, its just 
>>that I find RH rpms tend to work with Mandrake (eg the yahoo messenger 
>>one).
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>It's rare to find a package for which there's a Red Hat package but not
>a Mandrake one, particularly wrt user tools.  It's often not a great
>idea to use rpms from one distribution on another: the packaging format
>may be the same but they differ in some crucial paces and you can cause
>some damage.
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>>Can I use the up2date service as a Mandrake user?
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>No.
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