Hello,
I have been duel booting for a while now (redhat as default, but I still need something to fall back on for stuff I can't do at the mo), one thing that I have noticed is that every time I upgrade a package (I'm slowly working my way through them all) I find that it depends on a load of other packages, which is fine.

However, there are an awful lot of dependancies for some programs, all requireing a certain version of each one. I installed redhat 9.0 right out of the box (well off of my burnt cd images), but I got the distro a little while ago, and obviously the library isn't of the latedt versions etc.

ANYWAY, what I was wondering is if there is a tool that I can download which will go through and list all the bits I have on my computer and the version numbers. I did try to google it, but couldn't think what it would be called, and thus the searches came out bear. I know it's a long shot, but I don't know exactly what redhat installed to begin with, so I only have knowledge of what I have personally downloaded and put on there for sure. I'm just getting a little tired of using the search feature far too much! Thanks in advance, no probs if there isn't.

Theylan

The command line version of rpm can do that. I'm not sure on the commands because I don't use rpm...but read the man page for it (man rpm) and see what it is to query installed packages.

Also, if you compile software from source it will most often work with whatever version of libraries you have because they only require that libraries be above a certain version, not SPECIFICALLY a certain version.

kool, but most packages I install are not rpm's, does it list those too? the man just seems to refer to the rpms I have installed...

Ah, no need... hmm,
rpm -q -a --dump
yields a few results lol, well thanks Komakino, I'm sure I'll get the hang of it!

If they're not rpms then what are they? Do you also use apt-get? Or do you mean you want to know the libraries installed on your system? If that's the case you could use pkg-config:I think.