Linux Installation Question

[Saqib Shaikh]

From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of nick G
Sent: 20 April 2004 22:44
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Linux Installation Question

What option in RPM tells it to go find dependencys automatically?
Thanks,
Nick

Oopse my mistake for being a bit vague.  It won't actually find the
dependencies automatically.  It will during the setup program, and it will
afterwards as long as you use a third party add-on.  Fedora comes with yum,
which you can use to do automatic dependancy resolution and also updating
packages from the internet.  While not including in Fedora you can easily
get apt-rpm for Fedora, which is the same package manager Debian uses, but
modified to work with RPM files.

Now, a big disclaimer here because I don't use Fedora or Yum, but from
previous experience running that distro the following *should* work:

Edit your /etc/yum.conf to contain the following entry:

[fedora-core-1]
name = Fedora Core 1
baseurl = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/

Then you can use commands like the following:

Yum list: lists all packages
Yum check-update: see if any updates are available
Yum update: Update all packages
Yum install <package>: Install <package> and all dependancies
Yum search <words>: Search all packages to see if they contain <words> in
their name or description
Yum info <package>: Get info about <package>.

As I said, I used to use Yum but haven't for a while now, but let me know if
this is ok.

Saqib