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How to automatically resolve dependencies on CentOS?

For example, I need to compile some software from sources, build rpm-packages from it, and install them. The question is - how to automatically resolve (install corresponding packages) dependencies ...
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How to make an rpm package that installs a Java environment if needed

I'm very new to RPM packaging and I'm curious if, during the installation of one RPM it is possible to conditionally install another RPM if needed. In a nutshell. My RPM requires a particular JRE. ...
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Installing RPMS on Centos

Is generally installing standalone rpms considered 'dangerous'? Are these affected by any system upgrades, package upgrades etc.? How about dependencies and libraries?
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Why did yum-builddep not provide the dependencies to install my rpm?

I am trying to rum my rpm package but getting this dependencies error. [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/x86_64/asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ...
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Installing rpm & dependencies

I am trying to install an rpm, namely the Oracle 10g database for CentOS 6 for testing an app. The problem is that the machine the OS is installed on does not have access to the internet and there ...
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Fedora 16 dependency hell

There's a package libvpx-0.9.7 which is required by empathy application. Now I want to install another application which requires libvpx-1.0... Update is not allowed because some applications depend ...
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RPM dependencies with localinstall

I need to install an rpm package on a system which has no internet access. So, let's say I already have needed dependencies. How do I install them only by running the main rpm package? Do they need to ...
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How does rpm resolve library dependencies?

I try to make a package of a program which is linked to such library (output from ldd): libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 => /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 Pretty straightforward, ...
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Python library conflict with lower version

I am trying to reinstall yum in CentOS. Because I made some mistake by removing python. so I got error as follows There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The ...
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How to build a cross-distro binary RPM package?

I'm trying to build a cross-distro binary RPM package that works under Fedora and openSUSE. I'm using a Require: tag to set the dependencies package names. The problem is that the package names are ...