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RPM package dependencies



jbk wrote:
> I am using gnome desktop on Fedora Core 4. I suffered a disk write error
> and nautilus will no longer open. I used rpm to verify the installed
> components of nautilus and found the missing files and replaced them. It
> still won't start. I then used rpm to list the files it depends on and
> there was a list of about 20 ".so" and other files. I now have to find
> out what package each of these dependencies belong and verify their
> integrity. Is there a way to speed up this process? Has anyone written a
> script that will verify a package and then all of its dependencies?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Perhaps it would be easiest to just
rpm -e package
yum install package

--Matt




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