I am trying to install RPM libraries for Nagios. I tried YUM install for some of these development tools cannot be found.

Tell me what to do:
As you can seen below from the example, I am getting looped back to the very 1st dependency to the top.


[root@xbox1 downloads]# rpm -ivh libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libX11 = 1.0.3-8.0.1.el5 is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5.i386
libXdmcp-devel is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5.i386
xorg-x11-proto-devel >= 7.1-2 is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5.i386
[root@xbox1 downloads]# rpm -ivh libXdmcp-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
xorg-x11-proto-devel is needed by libXdmcp-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386
[root@xbox1 downloads]# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-9.fc6.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
mesa-libGL-devel is needed by xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-9.fc6.i386
[root@xbox1 downloads]# rpm -ivh mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.7.el5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libX11-devel is needed by mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.7.el5.i386
[root@xbox1 downloads]#

Put all the files in the same directory with no other rpms then run "rpm -ivh *.rpm". It should see that you have the other rpms in your select and resolve the dependencies there. (Alternatively you could do rpm -ivh package1 package2 package3 etc... as a single command line.)

Curious why you have this issue with Yum. I just did a fresh install of RHEL 5.3 on a server, then ran through the "Fedora Quickstart" install steps at Nagios site (Fedora being a good analog to how it should be done on RHEL). All the software packages not from Nagios were in my basic install already. The configure, make etc... all ran without incident.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart.html

I usually do rpm -U

Incidentally, if he *WAS* using YUM, he could just do yum install package, or even yum install libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5.i386.rpm and yum would resolve dependencies automagically.