YUM!!! I see that Jon mentioned yum but I'd thought I'd add a bit on how to use it, because once you start, you probably won't go back to something other than yum, apt, up2date, etc.
First, see if you have yum on your system (and run these commands as root):
# which yum
(mine is in /usr/bin/yum)
If you have yum installed on your system you can do a update en masse by tying (this command will pull down new kernels, so keep that in mind):
# yum -y update
The -y flag just tells yum to assume "yes" to any question.
If you want to see a list of everything you could possibly install with yum run:
# yum list
You'll want to tee or more that output, under RH 9 yum lists 1376 packages you could install.
If you want to install something from the list simply type:
# yum install <package name>
Yum will take care of any dependancies for you.
Have fun!
Greg
On Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004, at 09:54 US/Eastern, Jon Carnes wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 08:09, Marvin Blackburn wrote:I keep running into this issue.
I try to load a package, say packageX. When I try to install, it says that
i need fileY to resolve
some dependency. How can I find the package that might contain that fileY,
so I can install packageX.
If a previous version of the file is on the system, you can often see what
package it was associated with.
But if the file is not there, what do you do.
Any help would be appreciated.
This is why folks use tools like Up2date or Apt or Yum. They have lists of files/dependencies and will automatically apply them for you.
If you are using rpm's you can use rpmfind.net to find a package that contains a specific file.
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
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