Overwriting repoistory app with one compiled from source

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Hey…
As the kde networkmanager never seems to work reliably for me (nor does the gnome one) I installed wicd instead, first I tried to install it from source… but it didn’t work.
So I uninstalled it and checked webpin, and the one from there seems to work… but there is some bug when it tries to write the configuration file.
After some googling I found out that this is solved in a version later… so I compiled/installed the latest version on top of the webpin install… now it seems to work.

However… YaST2 software management lists it as version 1.5.6-31-1 while the program itself tells me it’s 1.5.8.
Didn’t add the repository from the webpin one-click, so this should be fine?

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  • Axeia,

not sure what the question is <sheepish look>

You may want to contact Dmitry directly. He has asked for help testing wicd here in the forums before and he’s surely interested in your findings.

Uwe

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Just wondering if I wont get any strange errors later on in YaST by having replaced the files it installed.

Though I’m not sure I’ll stick to it, still couldn’t get a PEAP connection to work. (WPA2 / PSK however now works 100% of the time!)

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On 01/06/2009 Axeia wrote:
> Just wondering if I wont get any strange errors later on in YaST by
> having replaced the files it installed.

I don’t think so. Yast doesn’t watch the app itself, just the rpm database. I don’t know what happens though in case it tries to update it.

Uwe