Re: How to query for full name for required packages

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez gmail com>]

On 10/3/05, Andreas Radke <a radke arcor de> wrote:
> I want to list all required packages by their name before installing
> some rpm. I have found "rpm -q -R foo.rpm". But that only tells me alle
> required files.
>
> Is it possible to display the required packages by their real name?

Your question is not clear. -qR will list every single dependency. A
depedency may or may not correspond to the name of an RPM, because an
RPM can provide other dependencies than its own name. (Example, on my
system "rpm -q --provides wget" lists "wget", "webclient" and
"webfetch".) Some other RPM package might only require "webfetch" and
not wget at all.

If you're on Mandriva, "urpmq -d" might help, although I'm not sure to
have understood your real problem.