Re: [Pan-users] Pan needs some serious fixing

[Denis Pelletier]

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:27, Horacus Horacus wrote:
> Ok, I've started using Pan as an alternative to Agent on Windows, at least
> I attempted to, but must say my results were very dissappointing.
> Installing Pan requires for some reason that gtkspell thing, and that by
> itself took me over an hour to work out to sattisfy the missing lib, Pan
> wouldn't even start without it ( I installed the 12.9 rpm for Mandrake).
> Since I've had a lot of experience working out the dependency crap and
> hunting down libs I manage but I can't see less experienced users ever
> succed without some serious time and effert investment. If I wasn't so
> stubborn I wouldn've given up on Linux and it's library dependency crap
> long time ago.

You are using Mandrake? So to install pan you just have to switch to root and 
type "urpmi pan". It will take care of all the dependencies.

Denis
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Denis Pelletier
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