[Linux-Discussion] Re: RPM Help
- From: "Damian Scott" <sdamian@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:23:51 -0800
Sorry about the assumption, Dennis.
-Damian
"Dennis B. Hopp" <dhopp97@xxxxxxxxx>
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01/31/2002 09:23 AM
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I'm aware of the basic RPM commands I was wondering if there was a away to
make RPM go get the deps for you, rather then having it tell you what
needs
to be installed and then you go install them yourself. Is there an addon
package that can be downloaded that will do this?
I just don't want to go through all kinds of RPMs to find all of the deps
(i.e, the deps have more deps, which have more deps, etc.).
Thanks,
--Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damian Scott" <sdamian@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: [Linux-Discussion] Re: RPM Help
> Dennis -
>
> I haven't used RedHat alot, but I've heard kpackage isn't
> something you want to rely on for installs (primarily for this reason).
> Kpackage is good for browsing to see what's installed. For actual
installs
> you'll want to get familiar with rpm. It's really the best way to go.
rpm
> will find the dependencies for you. This, of course, will require some
> command line time. To find out all the command line arguments that work
> for rpm, open an xterm window and type 'man rpm'.
>
> Here are some basic arguments to be used with rpm -
>
> rpm -i (install) (i.e. rpm -i foo.2.2-4.i386.rpm)
> rpm -U (upgrade. If package is not installed, -U will install
> it.)
> rpm - F (same as upgrade, except if package is not already
> installed, -F will not install it)
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> -Damian
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> "Dennis B. Hopp" <dhopp97@xxxxxxxxx>
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> I just setup a Red Hat 7.2 box. I forgot to install the Telnet server
> during install and now I want to install it (from RPM). I'm using KDE
for
> my desktop environment. When I run kpackage it doesn't automatically
find
> dependencies and then the install fails because the deps are not
> installed.
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> Is there a way to make kpackage automatically get the dependencies or
can
> I do this with the command line rpm (I didn't see how to do it in the
> --help)
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> Thanks,
> --Dennis
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