On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 08:08 -0700, Aaron Hanson wrote: > > The basic dependency -is- observed; in other words, I can't > install mysql without also installing ncurses and gpm. But the install > order isn't right. Mysql has this dependency 'Requires(post): ncurses'. > To enable something in the mysql package to really use the ncurses > library during the %post script, ncurses -and- gpm must be installed > before mysql... You never say what version of rpm you are using. Full rpm -qpR and --provides -qp on all packages involved would be helpful Doing rpm -Uvv will give you rpm's sorting (tsort) output on the packages involved. Paul