[PLUG] rpm installation help, please

[Jason Dagit]

My solution to this problem was debian...seriously though, RedHat is
great, and debian (to me) is greater...You're milage may vary, but if you
like to keep things reasonably up todate, with little headache debian is
good.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Richard Steffens wrote:

> I've downloaded ethereal-0.9.5-2.i386.rpm to my RH 7.1 system. I ran:
>
>   rpm -i ethereal-0.9.5-2.i386.rpm
>
> and get the following error messages:
>
>   error: failed dependencies:
> 	  libpcap >= 0.6 is needed by ethereal-0.9.5-2
> 	  net-snmp is needed by ethereal-0.9.5-2
> 	  libcrypto.so.2   is needed by ethereal-0.9.5-2
> 	  libpcap.so.o.6.2   is needed by ethereal-0.9.5-2
> 	  libsnmp.so.5   is needed by ethereal-0.9.5-2
>
> I understand that I need to install or upgrade something related to each
> of the above, but I don't know where to start. Is the process the same
> for each dependency? I.e., do I find the appropriate rpm for libpcap,
> net-snmp, libcrypto.so.2, libpcap.so.o.6.2, and libsnmp.so.5, download
> them, and run rpm -i on each of them? If they give me similar messages,
> to I keep working through the dependencies until they go away?

That's how I always solved it.  Try sites like rpmfind.net (is that the
right URL?).  You can download all the packages you need to upgrade and
then do them all on one command line, that can help rpm to understand
you're intentions and complain less.

HTH,
Jason