[Klug-general] Administration software for schools

[George Prowse]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:18 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>> Mike Rentell wrote:
>>> Well, I tried ledgersmb, downloaded it and descended into dependency hell.
>>>
>>> The package requires Perl (got that), PostgreSQL (installed that) Apache 
>>> (installed that) but it failed on perl-Smart-Comments. Downloaded that 
>>> but that failed installation due to missing perl-base >=2.5.10.0. 
>>> However I have already got perl-base version 5.8.8-12.2 on board.
>>>
>> Oooh, let me guess. You're using a rpm based distro?!?!
> 
> I doubt that has anything to do with it... Sounds to me like a package
> built for opensuse that someone is trying to use on fedora. RPM is a
> system of packaging which can work on various organisations of
> distributions, unlike deb which tends to only really work on a debian
> style organisation... 
> 
unlike deb which tends to *work* you mean ;)