   RPM Dependencies?
  HiWhen I want to install a new package or a kicko-off program, I get an rpm failed depndencies: ... bla bla bla, .so .so and so what I usually do is look for rpm that provides those .so's and then recursively the same problem until I get everything done.Is there a better means that I can just list all the rpm and resolve the dependencies without trying every rpm and lib?Yum? I don't want to.Thanks!   
  I thought RPM was a package managment system? If so it ought to have an 'Install all dependencies' command somewhere in the software.   ;  I don't use a RPM-based distro, but I believe that "rpm -qpR your_rpm_file.rpm" will do what you want. It's likely than the listed packages will have dependencies as well, which is why using yum would be the smart thing to do.Hope this helps.;  If you want dependencies to be automatically handled for you, you need to use a tool like APT or yum.What distro do you use?  If it is debian based you should already have apt... just type "apt-get install somepackage" and it will install somepackage and all dependencies, assuming it is in one of the repositories you have configured.  There is also a gui front end for apt called Synaptic.  You may have that installed in your administrative tools on your menu.If you use Fedora or Redhat, you should have yum.   ;  On Suse, use yast or yast2.   ;Quote:Original post by quakerHiWhen I want to install a new package or a kicko-off program, I get an rpm failed depndencies: ... bla bla bla, .so .so and so what I usually do is look for rpm that provides those .so's and then recursively the same problem until I get everything done.Is there a better means that I can just list all the rpm and resolve the dependencies without trying every rpm and lib?Yum? I don't want to.Thanks!After struggling with RPM dependencies in RH9 (with a server I maintained for a number of years ... as time went on, it became increasingly difficult to manage software on it), I tried a number of different distributions. Finally I settled on a Debian-base (specifically Ubuntu) which uses APT repositories to manage packages, and never looked back.