On Friday 15 November 2002 04:39 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > > urpmi <package> should automatically install that package and > > also, if needed, offer up a list of packages which have to be > > installed for it to work. > > > > However urpmf may be what you're after. This is very useful if > > you are trying to compile some package from source and the > > compiler throws out an error saying it can't find some particular > > header or other and neither can you. Just go, > > > > urpmf <file> #without the <>'s > > > > and it should, hopefully, tell you which package or packages > > contain it. > > urpmi does say that additional packagaes need to be installed, > which is fine, I sais yes. It downloads them and then failes saying > that something else is needed. Which I don't understand. I have > texstar, mandrake disks (1,2 and 3) and a mandrake update source > added, so why can't it find the missuing files? Unfortunately, > urpmf doesn't seem to give anything when gieven the files missing. > Weird.
Did you update your sources first? Many mirrors change daily and you should update your local source repository before trying to install something. urpmi will have trouble finding a dependency once in a while and I end up installing myself. But mot, if you update your sources it can find just about all it needs. urpmi.update -a hth, -s
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