Packages required

[Paul Howarth]

Eric Tanguy wrote:
> Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 13:08 +0000, Paul Howarth a écrit :
> 
>>Eric TANGUY wrote:
>>
>>>How to know which packages (not files) are required by a local package
>>>(not in a repository). Those already installed and those not installed.
>>
>>$ rpm -q --requires name-of-installed-package
>>$ rpm -qp --requires name-of-some.rpm
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> Thanks Paul but this command gives the files needed by the packages
> whereas i'm  looking for the list of the packages which contains theses
> files. I'm not sure to well explain myself.

The --requires option shows the dependencies, which may be files, 
packages or "virtual dependencies". All of these should be installable 
using yum.

For example, if an RPM file has a listed dependency of 
'perl(MIME::Base64)' (a virtual dependency), you can do:

# yum install 'perl(MIME::Base64)'

and yum will figure out the package that is needed, and install it.

What are you actually trying to do?

Paul.