rpm and solving dependencies

justmehere · 04-12-2006, 02:00 PM

are there any switches which allow you to install a package and all of its dependencies in one (short) command ? if not what would be the most efficient steps in installing any package which contains dependencies. Can be any package nothing in particular.

thanks

brianthegreat · 04-12-2006, 02:05 PM

What distro are you running? If your running a redhat based distro like fedora then just use yum to resolve your dependencies.

yum install filename

justmehere · 04-12-2006, 03:27 PM

thanks for the reply. i'm using an older version of Mandrake 8.1. i ran into the yum utility but saw that it was not for Mandrake. cheers

reddazz · 04-12-2006, 03:51 PM

Mandriva/Mandrake uses urpmi instead of yum.

justmehere · 04-12-2006, 04:35 PM

thanks again will check out urpmi. cheers

justmehere · 04-12-2006, 06:58 PM

it worked thanks. but i've got another question...how can find out which package does a file belong to ? something like

rpm -qf filename/path ? but I have to know where the filename is located is there any other ways ?

thanks again

reddazz · 04-12-2006, 07:12 PM

Thats the only method I know.

nitinatindore · 04-13-2006, 01:23 AM

Quote:

rpm -qf filename/path ? but I have to know where the filename is located is there any other ways

find / -name filename
rpm -qf path_obtained_from_above_command

A more faster method would be to use locate instead of find. However locate doesn't performs a search in real time but on an indexed database.

Also if its an command that you are searching for, then quickest way to determine file location is:
whereis command