[ale] Continued-> missing dependencies under Redhat.........

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

There's not much of a way with a stand-alone RPM system to determine
everything that a newly downloaded package might need. The rpm command
does provide the -R flag (used in conjunction with the -q query indicator)
which reports the packages and/or capabilities that the package in question
may need. Unfortunately, some of those needed packages may, in turn, have
their own dependencies.

So in short, the -R flag, in this case, doesn't mean recursive.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:45:57PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> How can I know exactly which rpms are required to provide said missing 
> dependencies without guessing and hence potentially installing 
> unnecessary "stuff" or worse, maybe spending lots of time and still not 
> hitting on the one needed ?

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