On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:15:03 -0700, Douglas Phillipson <dougp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Does Fedora have a tool which will solve and make adding packages easier, if > > so, what is it? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > > Fedora's yum works great and is intended to solve dependency problems. > Which package are you installing, with yum, that has dependency > problems? I am assuming you are installing a package from a yum > repository, not just a rpm file you downloaded. You might check out > "yumi", which is a graphical front end to yum, and shows all the > packages available in your repositories located in /etc/yum.conf. Here > is a great link, pointed out to me on this list, that has more > repositories and mirror sites. > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf > > You will need to uncomment the repositories you want... > > Doug P > Doug, Thank you for the yum.conf file that seems to have solved the dependency problem I was having. I have not been able to find the program yumi: [root@zaphod root]# yum list yumi Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Dries APT/YUM Repository Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable) Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing) Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable) Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Mike
