I'm trying to install gabber and opera, but i get error becuase i dont have certain packages installed. Where can I find these packages? I tried to use the package manager but it came up with nothing..



Thanks!

You could always go to the command line and type



rpm --force --nodeps *.rpm



That should unpack and install your proggies regardless of the dependencies.

will the programs still work ?

i had problems installing moz, and i still can't figure out what to do with the deps

dependencies is a huge reason why i use Debian and not Red Hat or mandrake. debian comes with a program called dpkg (and has a frontend called apt) its the debian package manager. its awesome to say the least. it downloads programs and installs them for you. if you wanna install a program and it has like 35 dependencies it will install them for you too. it downloads all the dependencies and the program for you and installs the latest version added to the apt database. you can upgrade every program you have on your system with two commands and if its been along time since you did it last it might take you a couple of hours. B]apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade [/B] and that upgrades every program on your system. debian is a bit harder to install then the other distros but after the inital setup its smooth sailing. ok i'm done promoting debian. rpmfind.net has a bunch of rpms you can search for the ones you need and download them you can install all the rpms you need at once. rpm -i file1.rpm file2.rpm file3.rpm anyway i hope i helped you and influnced you to use debian.

You can in fact install Apt-get on Red Hat just get it at freshrpms.net altho yes it doesn't have as big software selection but it works very very well and has all the software on freshrpms site plus Red Hats site to. And also DO NOT FORCE the package because it probably _needs_ it. Only force things unless you know for a fact what you are doing and there is a mess up in the version or in fact there is a bug, or if you are only doing it for a temp time just because you are planing on getting the other deps installed asap. The best thing you should do right now is type rpm -i filename. and read the file it needs. copy that file name and go to www.rpmfind.net and paste the exact file you need in there and it will tell you the rpm you need to download and give links. that is a VERY handy site you should always use it to find deps. or just use apt-get for Red Hat. Hope this helps.

When I installed KDE 3.0 on my linux box I had a number of dependencies that wouldn't allow me to install the rpm packages, so I used the method that I outlined in my last post and KDE works great.

It would help if you would tell us what it needs. It'll tell you what is missing/needed. We can then start looking.

Yeah it works sometimes but it can seriously break things most of the time. I've had to do it to gnome also just cause of Ximians stupid naming schemes.