Manage RPM Dependencies and Installation

[gwinn7]

I have noticed that it can be quite a tedious frustrating task to install several RPMs on a system. The frustration comes when you want to install a particular feature, but you don't know exactly which RPM's you need and what corresponding dependencies are.

Being still new to Linux, I am wondering if there is a better way of being able to know which RPMs to install for any feature. For example: If I wanted to install the developer tools so I could compile a binary from source, how could I easily derive what I needed for this?

I would rather know exactly, than guess by their names.

Thanks,
Gary
gwinn7

 

[haneo]

Hello ;-)
I am a new user of linux (RedHat) and i was wondring for the same question as you.

I have recently creat a shell script that list all the packages (*.rpm) from RedHat's CD to a file that you have to give it a name (exemple cd1_package.txt)

Stopping blabla here is my code :
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#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "" ]
then
echo -e "!!!! He give me the path to your packages !!!!"
exit 0
else
chemin=$1
fi

if [ "$2" = "" ]
then
echo -e "The list of the packages is stored in the file : /tmp/packages_cd.txt"
FILE=/tmp/packages_cd.txt
else
FILE=$2
fi

for i in $(ls $chemin)
do
size=`du -h $chemin$i | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "************************************************************"|tee -a $FILE
echo "**Package: $i size=$size"|tee -a $FILE
echo "************************************************************"|tee -a $FILE
rpm -qpl $chemin$i|tee -a $FILE
done
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You can name it :"listrpm"
#cd "to listrpm's directory"
#chmod +x listrpm (to make it executable)
#mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom (hdd=your cdrom/ & /mnt/cdrom must exist)
#./lisrpm /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ /tmp/cd1_rdh_packages.txt

Et Voila ! the file /tmp/cd1_rdh_packages.txt contain all the packages from the cd "Name of package+all its files"

hope this will help ;-)

NB: You must change the ending format of the line (with vi for exemple) because windows and linux do not use the same ending line caracter !

 

[gwinn7]

Thanks! I will try it.

Gary
gwinn7