library repository?

[Red Squirrel]

Is there a site somewhere with a searchable library repository? It happens often that a rpm needs some file and I need to search all over to try and download it somewhere. In my case I'm trying to install postfix and it needs libdb-4.0.so and I can't seem to find any download for it. I could try to find it off a system that has postfix but I don't think that's a good idea.

 

[tranceport]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool

apt-get

It doesn't just need that file.. It most likely needs the software with that file installed. That is a module. apt-get will sometimes help by installing everything you need. It will fetch rpms and install them automatically. The only downfall is not all software is able to be installed with it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah normally RH systems have yum but this one does not, and I've tried installing both yum and apt-get with way too many issues. I don't understand why yum is not installed though, that's a RH standard.

 

[Red Squirrel]

OMG this is rediculus. A simple postfix install will end up taking like 5GB because of this insane hierarchy of required RPMs. They seriously need to do something about this mess in Linux. It's bad. I'm at least 15 levels deep into dependencies that require other dependencies. I managed to find apt-get for RH though, but it too requires a crap load of depedancies. I hate having to install so much crap on a production server.


The situation is pretty much hopeless now, with all this installing I ended up installing some libs that conflict with required libs so even if I try to install the required ones it says a newer version is already installed so it wont install... what a mess. I was really wanting to use postfix. sendmail is hell to manage.