From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of nick G Sent: 20 April 2004 22:44 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Linux Installation Question What option in RPM tells it to go find dependencys automatically? Thanks, Nick Oopse my mistake for being a bit vague. It won't actually find the dependencies automatically. It will during the setup program, and it will afterwards as long as you use a third party add-on. Fedora comes with yum, which you can use to do automatic dependancy resolution and also updating packages from the internet. While not including in Fedora you can easily get apt-rpm for Fedora, which is the same package manager Debian uses, but modified to work with RPM files. Now, a big disclaimer here because I don't use Fedora or Yum, but from previous experience running that distro the following *should* work: Edit your /etc/yum.conf to contain the following entry: [fedora-core-1] name = Fedora Core 1 baseurl = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ Then you can use commands like the following: Yum list: lists all packages Yum check-update: see if any updates are available Yum update: Update all packages Yum install <package>: Install <package> and all dependancies Yum search <words>: Search all packages to see if they contain <words> in their name or description Yum info <package>: Get info about <package>. As I said, I used to use Yum but haven't for a while now, but let me know if this is ok. Saqib
