package dependencies [solved]

[David Bobroff]

Jan/Han-Wen,

Thanks for the package trouble help.

Han-Wen wrote:
> I recommend that you check out yum.
> It is the "factory supported" method of installing packages, and does 
> dependency tracking.
> You can also add 3rd party repositories if Fedora doesn't ship with 
> what you are looking
> for.

Done.  I installed yum and it did the trick.  The problem I was having
with figuring out what I needed was directly related to the naming
conventions in Fedora differing from what the RPM files were begging
for.  Example; XFree86-devel was being demanded by pango-devel.  When I
fired up yum to install the pango-devel package it found that xorg-x11-
devel was necessary *not* XFree86.  That is obviously the advantage of
yum over plain vanilla RPM.

Latest CVS compiling as I type.

Thanks again,

-David