-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:42 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > Being somewhat new to Redhat, I wonder if I haven't missed something > when it comes to package management. > > Yes, I understand how to use RPM, and generally it works OK. The > tricky part is when you have dependency errors. RPM tells you when you > have dependency errors, but it doesn't resolve them for you. Same with > GnomeRPM - you're told what's missing, but GnomeRPM doesn't go fetch > the missing RPMs for you. > > I've used SuSE for awhile, which is also RPM-based. It's YAST > installation program keeps a database of what's installed and resolves > dependencies for you. Debian uses something similar with its apt-get > program. So I'm wondering if there is something in Redhat that does > the same job? The Redhat books that I've looked at all explain RPM > thoroughly, but say nothing about an installation/package manager type > of program. So I'm wondering if such a thing exists? I'm using RH 7.1.
up2date will resolve dependencies for redhat provided packages. /sbin/up2date -u will update all installed packages for which updates exist. /sbin/up2date [packagename] will download and install the named package and any dependencies. man up2date for more details. You can also solve dependencies yourself with rpm. Install the rpmdb-redhat-7.1 package, and you can use the - --redhatprovides flags to rpm like so: [root@tuxfan root]# rpm --redhatprovides glibc glibc-2.2.2-10 [root@tuxfan root]# rpm --redhatprovides libgtop.so.1 libgtop-1.0.10-3 Hope that helps, - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EuXteMAUbzJhSVcRAkZdAKCu2yvi2MO6v8C8l7qvE15vuO6sqACfY1Cx +PYdoBenKbypOCEeRCHQJJ8= =bHXm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
