[linux-audio-user] Re: failure notice

[Rick Taylor]

> Somehow, this got bounced the first time
> 
> > Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> wrote:
>  
>  > I've got an odd one here - I'm trying to upgrade ALSA on a Mandrake 
>  > 9.1 box. I did this before on another (upgraded to 0.9.2) and it 
>  > worked fine, but on this one upgrading the RPMs seems to have no 
>  > effect.
>  
>   If you've got a copy of mc {file manager} you can use it to install
>   some rpms. {hit F3 with the cursor centered on the file} 
>  
>   Basically rpms are like small compressed tar files... they've got
>   your binaries and set up files, etc, etc all wrapped up in a nice
>   neat little container with instructions as to where everything goes
>   on your system.
>  
>   Mc will let you see what you're installing and to where and will
>   actually let you do it "by hand" so that you can make sure everything
>   goes where it's supposed to, that nothing's corrupt, etc... It also
>   gives you easy access to the config files so you can read through them
>   before you install them {as well as any setup files that the rpm uses.}
>  
>   I don't know a lot about Mandrake... I can't tell you much in that
>   regard.
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