<html><head><meta name="Generator" content="PocoMail 3 HTML/CSS Generator"/> <style type="text/css"></style> </head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0">On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:09:31 -0400, Marvin Blackburn wrote: > I keep running into this issue. > > > I try to load a package, say packageX. When I try to install, it > says that i need fileY to resolve > some dependency. How can I find the package that might contain > that fileY, so I can install packageX. > > If a previous version of the file is on the system, you can often > see what package it was associated with. But if the file is not > there, what do you do. > > Any help would be appreciated. > ------------------ > Marvin Blackburn > Systems Administrator > Glen Raven > "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George just to add to everyone else's replies on this about rpmfind.net, I have found it MUCH easier to use apt to solve rpm dependencies - especially when i first started with linux. The biggest pain i came across when installing rpms were the dependencies - say i wanted to install packageX and it might need packages A, B & C, but in-turn those packages may also need other rpms so before you know it you need to find tons of packages to solve all the deps. have a look at <a href="http://apt.freshrpms.net/">http://apt.freshrpms.net/</a> -- its well worth the download. HTH Jeff </body></html>