installing rpm packages recursively

installing rpm packages recursively

[César Soler]

Hi all,

I have been reading de rpm man page, but I haven't found anything about
this: does rpm tool provide any option to install a package and its
dependecies?
A few months ago, somebody suggested the apt-get tool, but it seems
suitable for Debian distro and .deb packages, doesn't it?

any clue or link about this, is welcome! Thanks

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Re: installing rpm packages recursively

[Leonid Mamchenkov]

Dear C?sar Soler,

Once you wrote about "installing rpm packages recursively":
CsS> I have been reading de rpm man page, but I haven't found anything about
CsS> this: does rpm tool provide any option to install a package and its
CsS> dependecies?
CsS> A few months ago, somebody suggested the apt-get tool, but it seems
CsS> suitable for Debian distro and .deb packages, doesn't it?
CsS> 
CsS> any clue or link about this, is welcome! Thanks

rpm by itself does not have an option to install all dependacies.
Mandrake Linux distribution has a took, afaik, that handles this
problem.  It's called something like irpm, or nrpm, or prpm, or
something like that. :)

RedHat 8.0's rpm can suggest you what packages to install.

If you don't have any of the above, you can still hack something up, if
you have access to a full list of RPMs.  I'd say you need to use --qf
(query format) option to do that.

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  Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
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  Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.

Re: installing rpm packages recursively

[Matt McKenzie]

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The Mandrake tool in question is "urpmi".
It can handle dependencies of RPMs, downloading the required 
dependencies from the install CD set, or online distribution sites.

Quite handy, I wonder if they will (or have already?) contribute it to 
the main fold (so other distros can use it, such as RedHat, SuSE, Turbo, 
etc).

Or.... you can also get the Debian apt system which has been ported to 
work with RPM.
There is a version of it at www.freshrpms.net which is geared towards 
RedHat.

apt-get upgrade on an RPM based system is a cool thing to have ;)

Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:

>Dear C?sar Soler,
>
>Once you wrote about "installing rpm packages recursively":
>CsS> I have been reading de rpm man page, but I haven't found anything about
>CsS> this: does rpm tool provide any option to install a package and its
>CsS> dependecies?
>CsS> A few months ago, somebody suggested the apt-get tool, but it seems
>CsS> suitable for Debian distro and .deb packages, doesn't it?
>CsS> 
>CsS> any clue or link about this, is welcome! Thanks
>
>rpm by itself does not have an option to install all dependacies.
>Mandrake Linux distribution has a took, afaik, that handles this
>problem.  It's called something like irpm, or nrpm, or prpm, or
>something like that. :)
>
>RedHat 8.0's rpm can suggest you what packages to install.
>
>If you don't have any of the above, you can still hack something up, if
>you have access to a full list of RPMs.  I'd say you need to use --qf
>(query format) option to do that.
>
>  
>

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