Bob Tanner wrote: > Quoting Robert Sinland (rsinland at gvtel.com): > > Is there a command or a program in Mandrake 8.1 that will > > let you select an RPM to install, and then install all the > > dependancies for it? > > It's called apt :-) > > The humor might be lost since you may not understand that it's a debian thing. I know, been been on the list at least that long. My problem is this...I have been looking at some older programs that use older versions of specific lib files. TKdesk for one example. Even when I d/led a statically linked binary it would not run. Others just refuse to compile, even after manually building and installing the the prerequisites... As I said in anothor post, my Linux is a bit rusty and predates RPM's.. RS > > > RPM is a good package tool, but not great. It's not very good a resolving > dependancies. Worse, it doesn't know how to fetch anything that related to > dependancies. > > You might want to look at the apt-for-rpm project which was posted to the list > recently. > > -- > Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list