On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Mike Noble wrote: > I a new to Fedora, have been using Mandrake for the last several > years. I am trying to find a tool that will install packages and > solve the dependencies for you (ie. download/Install the packages > that are needed as well). I looked at yum, but when adding a > package, it tells me that the following dependencies are not > satisfied. It does not tell me what packages I need just that these > libs are not installed. Yum does do the dependency resolution - and download/install the required packages. What errors do you get? If you post the errors - you'll get more help. Most-likely you are installing bad/Non-FC2 rpm on a FC2 box - and yum is correctly rejecting it. > Does Fedora have a tool which will solve and make adding packages > easier, if so, what is it? The alternatives to yum are 'up2date', 'apt' Satish
