On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Amish Munshi wrote:
Since there are very few varieties of windows, so the software developers know that the libraries that are available with each windows version and they can include the necessary stuff with their products, and save the problems of dependencies we have in installing softwares in linux.
This is not true. When you install a software in windows, it will install *all* required libraries as well. This is why windows installables are so huge. If they don't install everything, you will always have some document mentioning what you need to install first, and sometimes you will get a prompt while installing. This already happens in linux.
I have not yet faced problems with installing softwares on my slackware but I do not think that the .tgz packages that slackware comes with checks for any missing files that are rrequired by a package.
if it has been autoconfiscated, then it will.
I have not spent sufficient time it, but with rpm's it is a horror of a time searching for a package which provides the required dependencies. I would definately love to have a easier softwae installation procedure than the one exists now.
apt.
if you use redcarpet or some other tool like that, it will handle automatic dependency installation.
you can also use rpmfind.net
Philip