rpm dependencies
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 5 19:38:30 UTC 2004
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Mike Noble wrote:
> I a new to Fedora, have been using Mandrake for the last several
> years. I am trying to find a tool that will install packages and
> solve the dependencies for you (ie. download/Install the packages
> that are needed as well). I looked at yum, but when adding a
> package, it tells me that the following dependencies are not
> satisfied. It does not tell me what packages I need just that these
> libs are not installed.
Yum does do the dependency resolution - and download/install the
required packages. What errors do you get? If you post the errors -
you'll get more help.
Most-likely you are installing bad/Non-FC2 rpm on a FC2 box - and yum
is correctly rejecting it.
> Does Fedora have a tool which will solve and make adding packages
> easier, if so, what is it?
The alternatives to yum are 'up2date', 'apt'
Satish
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