[Wylug-help] rpm question

[Paul Hardy]

Emon wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I am running openSUSE 10.3 with KDE desktop.
> 
> I installed the "pidgin" pkg with YaST which in turn installed a couple
> of more pkgs to resolve dependencies.
> 
> My question is if I ever decide to uninstall "pidgin" how can I trace
> those pkgs which were installed to resolve dependencies & uninstall
> them?? either using YaST or from CLI.
> 
> My second question is about rpm & deb packages & thus might be very
> contentions so a little bit of history first as I don't intend to start
> a flame war here.......
> 
> this is how I started using linux & then moved on to different distros
> 
> RH-7.3 -> RH-8 -> Slackware-9.1 -> Slackware-10 -> Slackware-10.1 ->
> Slackware-10.2 -> Slackware-11 -> NovelSuse-10.1 -> openSUSE-10.2 ->
> openSUSE-10.3
> 
> as you have probably noticed I have no exposure to Debian or any of it's
> derivative distros, but recently I have been listening to a lot of noise
> regarding .deb pkgs from different people, so I even gave Ubuntu-7.04 a
> shot when it was released... but I had other problems..
> 
> 1)having shifted from M$-windows I have alway found KDE more appealing,
> thus kind of dependent on it, so I didn't exactly try Ubuntu; rather
> Kubuntu-7.04(DVD).
> 
> 2) but I use applications which are sometimes very heavily dependent on
> GNOME (pidgin, ekiga to name a few..). Sure many people suggested just
> do "sudo apt-get foo" & everything will be fine, but I live in
> Bangladesh & don't have broadband (internet is not a way of life here,
> yet) and can't taken advantages of the facilities that modern package
> managers offer may it be apt synaptic or YaST.
> 
> So by now you guys know why I had to ditch Kubuntu & stick to a distro
> which by default had good support for both KDE & GNOME....
> 
> coming back to pkg management... I hear from a friend that when you
> uninstall a .deb pkg in Debian (or any of it's derivative distros) the
> pkg manager also uninstalls the pkgs those were installed to resolve
> dependencies... sound pretty neat... is it true?? if so is it possible
> to achieve this on rpm based distros??
> 
> Hope I did not offend/hurt any body's feelings
> Emon
> 
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I think that the yum tool does for SuSE & Red Hat much of what apt-get 
can do  for debian-based distros. It is a command-line tool so it should 
be a small download. I don't know much about it, but there are some 
tutorials around the web. There is also a graphical KDE front-end called 
kyum.

Alternatively, Mandriva has a RPM extension called urpm which (again - I 
think) works in the way you describe. Only for Mandriva packages though.

Regards,

Paul Hardy
Wakefield W Yorks