[ILUG] Advice on Dependancies

[( Admin ) bryan]

Frank Murphy wrote:

> Tried to install  an rpm.
> wxChecksums-1.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
>
> Told me in needed some dependencies,
>
> wxGTK
> libwxgtk2.4
> libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0
>
> so searched for them & found thest
>
> wx-gtk2-2.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> libwxgtk2.4-2.4.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
> and
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0
> (I don't know which to d\l)
>
> when I tried I install wx-gtk2-2.51-1.i386
>
> it needs
> wx-base = 2.5.1 is needed by wx-gtk-2.5.1-1
>  libwx_base-2.5.so.1 is needed by wx-gtk-2.5.1-1
>  libwx_base_odbc-2.5.so.1 is needed by wx-gtk-2.5.1-1
>
> Where am I going wrong,
> or how can I get the wxChecksums-1.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
> up and running which is what I would like.
>
> It says Mandrake. but is an rpm so I figured it would work on FC1?
>
> Frank
> (It's like the song "one step up, two steps back" but, I'm not giving up)
>
I have never installed any RPM's from one distro to another. If they say 
noarch it should go ok.
You may find yourself in dependancy hell. Try installing yum 
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/8835
and doing it the "nice" way.

--B