Ximian Gnome Redcarpet does this.  FWIW, if you go that route, you'll be
installing ximaian versions of gnome, which are incompatible with
RedHat's version system.  An upgrade to a later release of RedHat, e.g.
7.1 to 7.2 can be, shall we say, "interesting".

John
On 12/09/01, 11:42:01AM +0800, 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.
> 
>  - Robert Storey
> 
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