[plug] When is the next installfest?

[Craig Ringer]

William Kenworthy wrote:
>>I tried downloading the various software it required, but got in this loop
>>where it would say "need X", so I'd attempt to download X and it would say
>>needs "y".  But I already had a (too early) version of y, and since KDE (and
>>just about everything else) depended on it, it was a bugger to try to
>>upgrade (although I was probably going about it the wrong way - installing
>>from source).

Debian's apt, the yum in Fedora, apt4rpm and mandrake's urpmi should all 
be able to handle this for you. The issue is exactly the same as trying 
to 'dpkg -i' a package - neither dpkg nor rpm are equipped to seek out 
the dependencies for you, but there are wrappers tools that are.

Craig Ringer