newbie with dependency conflicts

[omcintyre]

OK. Since yesterday I've learned that once I register with Novell I have access to the SLED repositories where I found the Gnome Games package I want to install.
I started to install it and began to get messages that begin this way: "No installable provider of libxcb.so.1 for gnome games 2.24.1-1.4.i586"

So how do I know where to find the libxcb(etc.) and install it. (I tried searching the packages that didn't work; as I browse through the list of packages I see lots of them are gnome related, do I just add them all??

I'm making progress, but still want to get my solitaire and mah jongg on my netbook.

(Lenovo Ideapad s9e - SLED 10 sp2)

[gogalthorp]

How are you installing it??? You should as a new user always use Yast to install packages.

Yast-Software-Software Management.

[omcintyre]

Yes, I'm using Yast2. (Understand, I've just been doing this 2 days!) I discovered that there were a ton of patches that needed to be installed which I have tried to do, but mostly I'm getting a message "installation of package failed" or "RPM failure."

I've learned a lot in the past 48 hours -- unfortunately none of what I've learned is working.

Should it really be this hard to get solitaire??

Isn't there somewhat to load a package AND all the dependencies it needs?

[gogalthorp]

My guess is that you are running the KDE desk top not the gnome. Thus you must install gnome (or most of gnome) in order to run the gnome game packages. This is no big problem for Linux since you can have as many desktop managers as you want. Problem is that you only have a 4gig hard drive.

There is also a KDE game package search for 'kdegames'. This may be more compatible with your limited resources.

[omcintyre]

Yes, I know it is tiny, but I really don't need or want very much -- Firefox, OpenOffice, some sort of media player, and a few games. I hope to get to the point where I can take off some of this stuff that I don't need or want.

I am in the gnome desktop. It seems that nothing KDE is installed. (Although I did find in in the repository -- a huge step from yesterday!) Can I install the KDE games and nothing else?

As it is I'm still installing patches (39% completed) and will see what is possible when that is finished.

Before I discovered that I needed to download the patches first, I was going through the repository trying to see what I should add. Quite a few of the little boxes had a pop-up that said DO NOT INSTALL when I rolled over them. Any idea why?

[gogalthorp]

That is just the status ie the box is unchecked therefore the manager sees it as do not install this. If checked the status would be install. If you right click you will see the possible status states