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Re: Finding which package has a file you need - solved!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hUnTeR)
Sun Nov 1 22:45:48 1998
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 22:45:04 -0500
From: hUnTeR <hunter@esprit.net>
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William Stearns wrote:
>
> I've put together a simple script that might help. The
> makerpmfilelist script simply outputs what each package in the current
> directory provides and what files are in each package. Take a look at the
> output to see.
> When you're having trouble figuring out what needs to be installed
> to satisfy a dependancy, take a look at the list you've created from the
> base distribution, the powertools directory, any downloaded rpm's, etc,
> and search through the file until you find what's needed. Scroll up until
> you find the name of the package that has this resource, then install this
> package.
> To use it, change to a directory that has some RPM's. Run:
>
> makerpmfilelist >>rh51-provideslist
>
You could also use a program called rpmfind which will find the package
AND related dependent packages to require all the deps. This can be
found at rufus.w3.org
Cheers
Michael Weiner
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