On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 1:47 am, Wei Wang wrote: > I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get > lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install > a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied > dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm on > my Mandrake 8.1 gives out around more than 100 failed dependencies > involving around 30 files needed. Do I have to install all these required > packages manually, one by one, which is what I've been doing? > Is there an automatic tool that installs all the required packages and > thus automatically resolve all the failed dependencies? > I understand that it's been more than a year between the kdelibs-3.1 and > the libraries in Mandrake 8.1. In that case, do I have to keep very closely > up-to-date with the new version of packages? Otherwise I would end up > facing lots of failed dependencies due to the rapic software/package > development? > This may sound like a very naive and primitive question. But I have been > exhausted by manually iron out the sometimes chains of failed dependencies > one by one. Please give a newbie some hint on this. Bunch of thanks.
You need to learn about urpmi http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3558 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3460 http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg108964.html http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/90/en/Starter.html/software-management.html derek
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