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Old 12-04-2004, 06:50 PM   #1
soldeace
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Dependencies checker and downloader?

I'm tired knowing every RPM I'm gonna unpack requests a lib which I don't have installed. Does exist something that checks and downloads those dependencies from a repository?
 
Old 12-04-2004, 06:59 PM   #2
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yes YUM

do a google search for yum
 
Old 12-04-2004, 07:29 PM   #3
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Dunno about SuSE, so I can't really say, but

when I had a mandrake install, if I stuck to "mandrakised" rpm's then I never had a problem with dependencies. Not once.

Whereas, if I tried to use either a proper redhat/fedora one, or a SuSE one, I had nothing but problems.

So, my suggestion is to stick with SuSE rpms unless they're not available, then maybe you should try tarballs (tar.gz and similar).

regards

John
 
Old 12-04-2004, 09:18 PM   #4
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Code:
man yast
 
Old 12-04-2004, 09:47 PM   #5
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scuzzman, are you suggesting yast2 has such feature? I couldn't find it...
 
Old 12-04-2004, 09:58 PM   #6
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Wouldn't apt do the job well?

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ This explains how to setup apt-get with SuSE.
 
Old 12-04-2004, 10:08 PM   #7
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Crap, I replied to the wrong post. Could a mod delete this?
 
Old 12-05-2004, 01:00 AM   #8
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use yum
it checks all dependencies and downloads appropriate file headers for you
 
  


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