install rpm, missing dependencies

[Guest shaggy.]

Ok, this one drives me nuts.

Maby I am doing something completely wrong.

 

Everytime I try to install some programm, which is not included in the mandrake distribution,

with urpmi xyz.rpm I get all these missing dependencies.

e.g. missing libcrypto.so2

Most of the time I dont even find a rpm with the name of the missing stuff.

 

Isnt there a way to resolve those dependencies automatically???

(Get it from some ftp servers)

 

What is your experience?

[fuzzylizard]

Theoretically, I think so. I always thought that was the idea behind urpmi. However, I have never been able to get it to work and have given up installing many a piece software.

[bvc]

Well normally you can do

[bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ urpmf libcrypto.so2

[bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost bvc9]# urpmf libcrypto.so2

[root@localhost bvc9]#

 

But it looks like this file is not on the cd's. A google advanced suggest

$ rpm -q --whatprovides libcrypto.so2

openssl-0.9.6b-8

 

so you have to install the openssl package.

But my result is

[root@localhost bvc9]# rpm -q --whatprovides libcrypto.so2

no package provides libcrypto.so2

[root@localhost bvc9]#

http://marc.free.net.ph/message/3D6D8148.5...msi.net.ph.html

 

 

 

If you go to http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/ and search for "addmedia" you'll get a ton of results for using urpmi to fetch everything you need. Look for a link to a HOWTO or docs for urpmi also. I couldn't find it in the first 4 or so.

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...hlight=addmedia

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...hlight=addmedia

[spiedra]

What you'll want to do is add sources to urpmi which those links provided by bvc, will walk you through doing.