Re: What's the easiest way to deal with dependencies???

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On Friday 17 October 2003 12:53 pm, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> hanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:hanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>     on Friday, October 17, 2003 10:57 AM said:
> > I don't know of a fast way but if you plug in the names one by one
> > with google it usually finds them for instance the first one
> > is part of kdelibs-3.1-0
>
> I've dealt with this same issue (as I'm sure everyone has) and I have
> one question: Are you saying that a person should install the entire
> kdelibs-3.1-0 to get that one dependancy solved
Yes, that's true

 or are you suggesting
> to somehow extract that one file from the kdelibs tar?

I don't think you can do that with RPM. RPM database only keep track of RPM 
packages, not files.
This is probably one of the shortcomings of RPM (or not, I don't know).

RDB

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