Installation of X development libs from RedHat CD

[jdvilla]

I am trying to install Gnome 2.4 via garnome-0.27 on a RedHat 8.0 system.

I was getting errors about gnome-pilot needing to be installed as well as libgnomecanvas when trying to install the X and Gnome development libs. I located these rpm's on rpmfind, but as usual, they require other rpms/libs.

Why would I be getting a dependency problem when installing adding new packages via the CDs?

Any ideas?

[fredg]

It doesn't matter where you get the RPMs, either off the net or the CDs.

If you try to install a package that depends on other packages, and those others aren't already installed or aren't being simultaneously installed, then you will get dependency errors.

Easiest way to solve this is to install apt for RPM from

http://freshrpms.net/

It resolves all the dependencies for you, and downloads all the needed packages.

[jdvilla]

I've used apt for RPM before.... and that's what I'll probably go back to... but the reason I posted is becaise when I usually install new RPM's via the CD, it will tell me what else is needed due to dependencies....

[fredg]

Well, reading your reply and your original post, and knowing how bare rpm works, I guess I don't understand your question.

[jdvilla]

Sorry, I wan't clear. My mind is kind of cloudy...

What I meant is that when I upgrade/install new packages via the CDs I have for RedHat, the normal behaviour I experienced was that it would search for the dependencies then tell me what other CD's to insert in order to get those dependencies...