Resolving rpm Dependencies

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:23:25 -0700


Non-elegant solution:
go to google.com and enter this search:
rpmfind provides your-weird-library.so.0

Once you have the name of the RPM that provides your file, use rpm
to add all of the files at the same time.

I'm open to a more elegant solution.

George


"Simper, Brian D" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install some Red Hat 6.2 patches in the form of .rpm files
> onto some Linux machines and there are some dependency problems on some of
> the files.  Many of the needed files have the ".so.0" extension and I don't
> know how to find where they might reside.  I don't have the option of trying
> apt-get with Debian at this time.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how
> to resolve rpm dependency problems?
> 
> Brian Simper
> 
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