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Does YUM install dependencies?
Edit Just a clarification, this will automatically install all dependencies that are already available via system YUM repositories. If you have dependencies satisfied by other RPMs that are not in the system’s repositories, then this method will not work unless each RPM is also specified along with packagename.
How do I find RPM dependencies?
You can solve dependencies problem by installing each individual package(s). If you are using Red hat Linux then you can try this tip. If you are using Fedora core Linux then try yum. If you are using Suse linux then use Yast to install rpms.
How to find the dependencies of a package in Yum?
yum doesn’t have that capability. Use the repoquery tool from the yum-utils package instead. Produces a list of all dependencies and what packages provide those dependencies for the given packages. Alternative to Yum deplist command to find out dependencies of the package is dnf repoquery –requires using repoquery plugin.
How to find dependencies for a particular package in rpm?
There could be many reasons. If you are a RPM package maintainer you need to be aware of the required dependencies for a particular package. Also, we can omit a particular package while installing multitude of X packages. Say for example, the other day I was trying to install root, a collection of packages provided by EPEL.
How to get list of non-installed dependencies in Linux?
If you want to install a package and it’s dependencies via yum, try the localinstall option instead if install. The localinstall install a package and finds any dependencies and downloads them: $ yum -y localinstall I am no yum guru but this works fine for me, makes it easy to install including dependencies 🙂
Why do we need to find dependencies for a particular package?
You might ask why we need to find the dependencies. There could be many reasons. If you are a RPM package maintainer you need to be aware of the required dependencies for a particular package. Also, we can omit a particular package while installing multitude of X packages.