how to find dependencys
 

new to installing software on linux and have instaled several programs from the internet,
however sometimes i get a message that says failed dependencys. how do i track them down in order to install the package. is there a how to somewhere on the net or cd distro i can read or some search function.

using fedora 2 downloaded last week.

thanks

well basically when there is a dependancy "error" just look for the package that is
listed in the error and find it and install it, and then try the original package again ...
a good site for searching is http://rpmfind.net ... even if the dependancy is a file such as
"blahblah.so.2" you can search for that on rpmfind and it will return the result of the
package that contains it ... and of course www.google.ca/linux is always your friend ;) oh and also there is always APT-GET which will take care of dependancys for you
so you dont' have to worry about them at all, so thats always convienent ..

You can install YUM and then run it, I believe the syntax is yum pkgname -install. YUM should find all the dependencies for that pkg.

yummy
 

Yum should already be installed on fc2. If you want to have a wider range of packages, you need to alter /etc/yum.conf. As mentioned in other recent posts, "yummy" exists to do this. Do a google search for it.