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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren:
> One thing that's rather strange to a newbie linuxphile @ rmpfind.net is the
> huge amount of libraries you should know about. When I download an RPM,
> I have to check through dozens of other files and maybe download them too.
>
> Isn't there any "all needed libraries included" choice somewhere? Would be
> a bit easier.
nope.
I just keep the Rufus page open when I try to install, so that when you
get a dependency barf, you can find the critter you need to update.
sometimes tho the "Requires" that the Rufus page lists don't correspond to
the names pf RPM's on your system. For example, library files ("libXXX.so").
Annoying. So what you do is, first find the file on your system:
(fred) ~ >> locate libz.so
/usr/lib/libz.so.1
/usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3
/usr/lib/libz.so
Then ask RPM what package it's in:
(fred) ~ >> rpm -qf /usr/lib/libz.so.1
zlib-1.1.3-24
f
