any good resource about dependency in slackware?

eeyoree · 08-08-2004, 06:34 AM

something like a documentation which explain
if you want to install man you must also install groff
and so on

gbonvehi · 08-08-2004, 06:54 AM

Generally that's specified on the program's documentation. Eg: you want to know what do you need to compile the kernel go to: /usr/src/linux/README and go the the part Software requeriments.

Ninaw · 08-08-2004, 06:58 AM

You should find these out for each software package you are going to install. I think almost every package on linux packages tells you what dependencies it needs. If you don't want to do all these maybe you could try an the automatic package installation and dependency resolver for slackware like swaret or slapt-get

Cedrik · 08-08-2004, 07:54 AM

When you install man package, it is clearly mentioned in PACKAGE DESCRIPTION :

man: man (format and display the on-line manual pages)
...
man: Man requires the groff text processing package.