[Yum] dependancies
THUFIR HAWAT
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 17:31:33 UTC 2005
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:11:49 -0700, Michael Stenner
<mstenner at ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> > recursively, how do you find all the dependancies required for a
> > particular package?
>
> Hey Thufir,
>
> If you just want to install a package, do "yum install foo". Yum
> automatically calculates the deps recursively. You can use the
> --download-only option if you just want to download them. If you just
> want the info, then you'll have to program in python and use the yum
> libs.
>
> -Michael
>
> P.S. Sorry to hear about that thing with the Harkonen's. They
> treatin' you OK?
heh, all's ok, thanks for asking :)
I did: "yum grouplist 'X Window System'", but I'm not sure what the
next step is, "yum install 'X Window System'"?
I'll reboot and give it a try :)
Thufir
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