How to install rpm packages recursively?
 

I am faced with a installation problem. If I want to install package A, it has dependencies B1, B2. These in turn have dependancies C11, C12 etc.

How can I use rpm to install package 'A' which takes care of dependencies?

I don't believe there is a way to do this other than reading up before attempting an install.

the urpmi packages use a catalogue of distro cd's to store records of depencies, so all satisfyable ones can be dealt with. i don't know if rh72 has a gui for it, but mandrake has the lovely, if slow, rpmdrake. is there an rpmdruid?

you could try and install teh rpmdrake rpms onto a non mandrake system, (esp if you use teh src.rpms' and compile them) they should be ok i think. i did actaully get about 30(!!!) depency failures when i tried to upgrade it recetnly tho!

There is a thing called red-carpet which deals very effectively with this, look for it at ximian.com, ( I am experienced with this) also a project at sourceforge called aptrpm, or something like that, (I am NOT experienced with this) which implements the Debian apt-get for rpm based distros.

rpmfind will also do what you are looking for. From the man page:
--jeremy