On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:42:06 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > >Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm > >showed and make sure they are all installed.
> That was my original question that started this thread... Which Gentoo > packages do I need to install to satisfy the dependencies that RPM > indicated were missing? That question has yet to be answered. The key word here is "indicated". rpm only knows about the files in its database, files that were themselves installed by rpm. Obviously, that database is empty on a Gentoo system as everything has been installed from portage. What you need to do is go through the list of files that rpm says it needs and check for the existence of each one with locate (run updatedb before you start, to be safe). You may well find that they all exist, in which case you can call rpm with --nodeps. If not, you'll have a far shorter list of truly missing files to check up on. If the package for a file is not obvious from its name, try searching for it on http://rpmfind.net or http://packages.debian.org. This will tell you which package supplies this file on other distros, the Gentoo package will generally have a similar name. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.
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