OK, relative newbie here, so be gentle with me. I've run Linux for over a year now, but honestly more as a user than an administrator. I run the 5 disk version of Mandrake 10.0 using MkdKDM as the display manager (and as I type this, I realize this may relate to another problem).

I am trying to install kxstitch-0.5-1.i586.rpm. I type:

rpm -i kxstitch-0.5-1.i586.rpm

and I get:

error: Failed dependencies:
libMagick++.so.5 is needed by kxstitch-0.5-1
libMagick.so.5 is needed by kxstitch-0.5-1
liblcms.so is needed by kxstitch-0.5-1

OK, so I have libraries that are not installed, or are the wrong version. I tried (as root):

ln libMagick-5.5.7.so.0.0.0 libMagick.so.5
ln libMagick++-5.5.7.so.0.0.0 libMagick++.so.5

liblcms.so was already in the directory, so I did nothing about a link.

Run rpm again, and get the same error.

Anyone tell me what else I should do?

im no rpm expert(personaly i cant stand them for this exact reason), but it may be looking in the rpm database for those librarys, and also, if you change the librarys, its usualy a good idea to update your linker /sbin/ldconfig
edit: also make sure the path those librarys are in is in /etc/ld.so.conf before you run ldconfig

I appreciate the quick response, but none of the above solved the problem - still get the same errors.

Have you looked into Easy URPMI? http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

Once you configure Mandrake to use the Main, Contrib, Update, and PLF (penguin Liberation Front), sources, most dependency problems are solved automatically. Knock on Wooden Penguin...

Then, just open a root console, type URPMI xxxnamexxx and you're good to go, 9 out of 10 times