On 11/15/11 17:05, Gary Greene wrote: > On 11/15/11 4:53 PM, "Frank Cox"<theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:45:39 -0800 >> Edward Martinez wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to install RPM package Adobe Reader on Centos 6. I did a rpm >>> -test -ivh on the package and it says it needs dependencies (many) Is a there >>> a command to verify which exact packages it requires so I wont be >>> installing software blindly. >> "yum localinstall packagename" will give you a list of what it requires but >> since it won't recognize the signature on the acroread rpm it won't actually >> install anything. You can then "yum install" everything needed from the list >> that it generates. >> >> Or you can install the adobe repository rpm and then just do "yum install >> packagename" and that will download and install everything for you. >> >> You also might want to reconsider using acroread. I've found that the evince >> pdf reader that comes with Centos 6 is really good. > Besides that, looks like from the list it wants an older version of glibc, > libpthread, atk, etc. If anything, I'd say this looks like it was built for > RHEL5 instead of RHEL6, which doubly would make me not want to attempt > installing it.... > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi, I executed on the command line of centos 6 "rpm -q glibc" and "rpm -q atk" after i installed adobe reader, and the output of both were : #rpm -q glibc glibc-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3.x86_64 glibc-2.12-1.25.el6-1.3.i686 #rpm -q atk atk-1.28.0-2.el6.x86_64 atk-1.28.0-2.el6.i66 I'm thinking that with the "el6", they along with the other dependencies adobe needed, were not downgraded