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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.5 Install issues
« on: May 28, 2017, 05:39:23 pm »Quote
Why RPM/YUM, we have beautiful WarpIN
IBM endorsed RPM/YUM on other systems and there is reason to believe that if OS/2 development had continued, there would be some sort of RPM/YUM for OS/2 from IBM.
About WarpIN: I was a WarpIN fan myself (you possibly know some of my software that came as a WarpIN package) and there were quite some discussions in bitwise, about RPM/YUM being that ugly and WarpIN is so nice anyway.
I had to learn that WarpIN simply is not good enough - it lacks several features direly needed by a modern package manager. From the architecture point of view, extending WarpIN was considered, however the design of WarpIN prevents that.
What we do these days, is to enhance our RPM/YUM to embrace WarpIN.
In addition the number of OS/2 specific features of RPM/YUM is increased and enhanced. Missing features found in WarpIN missing in RPM/YUM are added (for example install a font in OS/2, RPM/YUM cannot do this at the moment - expect to see that change soon).
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if we use the latest vBox we have to reboot to use OpenOffice 4
For sure not an RPM/YUM based installation, as that definitely works. This is exactly the reason, why it does not make sense anymore to install that stuff manually. I cannot answer your question, I simply do not know your machine. If you had done it using RPM/YUM it would work.
Sorry, I understand your feelings, but doing it manually is simply wrong.