[olug] question downloading packages

[Nick Walter]

It's sadly a frequent occurence on RedHat based systems.  Sometimes trying
to install a single RPM can land you right in the middle of a complex web of
dependencies and it can take a long time to sort it out.

Often the homepage of the software you are trying to install will provide a
list of dependencies and possibly even links to the packages you need to
install first.  Might want to check into that.

Nick Walter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Geiger" <hmcsret at ip68-13-118-226.om.om.cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject: [olug] question downloading packages


> I'm a newbie to Linux I am trying to use rpm to load gnomesword in my
> RedHat 8.0 system. This is my first foray in to rpm. I have a msg saying
> I need to load libsword.so.1  and I also found I need to load
> sword-1.5.3 as well.  Is this a normal situation when loading and
> installing packages with Linux? Do I download all these packages then
> install each of them in turn?
>
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