> > From: Chuck_Sterling <csterlin@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2004/07/02 Fri PM 07:25:27 EDT > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: List of rpms to install mplayer on FC2 (2.6.6-1.435.2.1) > <snip> > > Since I did not know what order of installation was needed, I just used > a baby script to install whatever would, then run it again and again > until all the dependencies were finally met. Took about four passes, > plus one more when finally I downloaded libpostproc. > > example of script... > # for FILE in `ls -1 *.rpm` > > do > > echo $FILE > > rpm -i $FILE > > done > . . . > # > > </FWIW> > Chuck Sterling > Chuck, Couple of thoughts to make it easier for you next time.... 1) Try to get used to yum or apt-get. I am using yum at the moment, and once I modified my yum.conf file to include some other repo's, all I had to do was a "yum install xine". Admittedly, my repo did not have a couple of additional rpm's listed as dependencies, so I needed to additionally do a "yum install libdvdcss". 2) But even if you would rather go through manual dependency h-e-double-hockey-sticks, simply download all the rpm's you think you need into one directory, from one repository site. Then do a "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" from that directory. The "shell expansion" will initially have the rpm's in alphabetical order, but the "preflight check" of rpm will re-order them automagically based on the dependencies..... Seems easier than your script. Also by using the -v switch you will see the order that they are installed in. HTH in the future, --Rob
