[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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