On all of my computers that I've run Linux on, I've gone with a Debian based system, so I've gotten used to apt. My company (and Uncle Sam) use Red Hat. Is this really the way that rpm does packaging?:
1) Find an rpm of what you want.
2) Try to install it, rpm reports missing dependencies.
3) For each dependency, start at step 1.
It's so asinine that I'm almost sure I'm doing something wrong. With apt, I just say "sudo apt-get install <packagename>" and it (usually) installs everything I need.
Is there an easier way to use rpm? And yes, I've got an rpm for apt, but, surprise, surprise, it's got about 6 missing dependencies.
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I think yum does dependancy tracking for Red Hat-based systems.
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I highly suggest yum. With RPMs I think you pretty much have to solve dependencies yourself.
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one time, I found the RPM called apt -a port from debian. I was so impressed that I downloaded it right away not knowing that you have to install...one bajillion other RPMs.
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