Python Imaging Library download link broken?

Tim Harig usernet at ilthio.net
Tue Jun 30 04:56:16 EDT 2009


On 2009-06-30, Steven D'Aprano <steven at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:16:02 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In message <td22m.1717$8r.956 at nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Tim Harig wrote:
>>> Package managers with dependency tracking were all the rage when I
>>> first started using Linux.  So I tried Red Hat and everything worked
>>> great until the depency database corrupted itself.
>> I have been using and administering various flavours of Linux--Red Hat,
>> SuSE, Mandrake (before it was Mandriva), Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu--over
>> about the last decade, and I have NEVER seen this mythical dependency
>> database corruption of which you speak.
> Really? I've seen it, or at least something that looks like it if you 
> squint. In my experience, it can usually be fixed by:
> yum clean all

Yum wasn't available then and I have never used it.  Maybe it does a better
job these days.  I don't know.  I get along fine without it.



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