From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:37:07 GMT Subject: Re: RPMs for latest release Message-ID: <7vejikmk24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net> rdavid274 writes: > Every rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have > been already installed. > > So, how does a newbie deal with this issue? A newbie will probably learn how to use rpm to deal with this issue, I would presume. Sorry, I do not run rpm based distro myself, but I would imagine "rpm -i" (if -i is the "install" subcommand, I dunno) would take more than one package name on the command line to be told to install all of them at once?