Resolving Dependencies?

darthn · #1 21st December 2005, 03:10 PM

I am always having problems with dependencies for anything that's not in rpm or yum. It drives me crazy having to search the net for one small file, then it says its already installed. Is there a better solution for this than googling every last lib.so.0 dependency?

pparks1 · #2 21st December 2005, 03:15 PM

No solution that I know of. THat is why utilities like yum and apt-get have become so popular....they handle the dependencies for you automatically.

nlkrio · #3 21st December 2005, 03:17 PM

what repos are you using in yum?
and at http://rpm.pbone.net/ you can search the library you need and you can find the rpm that contains it

darthn · #4 21st December 2005, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nlkrio

what repos are you using in yum?
and at http://rpm.pbone.net/ you can search the library you need and you can find the rpm that contains it

I use rpm.pbone.net but the search feature is useless. Here's my example. I install UUDeview and other programs still cannot use the dependencies it provides. ./configure just gives me error 1 and 2.

nlkrio · #5 21st December 2005, 03:38 PM

Another thing which i do is i use yum to search for me,i enable all the repos i find the rpm that contains the lib and i download the source rpm or source code if the rpm is not suitable for my system!
yum search libname

smfinley · #6 21st December 2005, 03:53 PM

You can use the "yum provides" feature. When you are missing a dependency do a "yum provides that_missing_dependency_name" and yum will find all the applications in your enabled yum repositories that provide that particular missing dependency. Then you can install one of those applications with a "yum install that_application" as root and you will have your missing dependency.

nlkrio · #7 21st December 2005, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by smfinley

You can use the "yum provides" feature. When you are missing a dependency do a "yum provides that_missing_dependency_name" and yum will find all the applications in your enabled yum repositories that provide that particular missing dependency. Then you can install one of those applications with a "yum install that_application" as root and you will have your missing dependency.

I use this too but not everything is solved ,but in linux you learn to live with dependancies ,fredomme has its price