Often times I need to install an rpm, which I didn’t get from a repo, that requires other dependencies. I used to try to install it and have it fail. But today I found –test, which is faster than doing a failed install.
So to see if you have all the needed dependencies try:
rpm -Uvh --test foo-1.2.i386.rpm
If everything looks good you see:
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
Otherwise, you see a list of failed dependencies:
error: Failed dependencies:
java-gcj-compat is needed by xml-commons-apis-1.3.03-0jpp.1.fc7.i386
libgcj_bc.so.1 is needed by xml-commons-apis-1.3.03-0jpp.1.fc7.i386
rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by xml-commons-apis-1.3.03-0jpp.1.fc7.i386
