Well really I just need my video card (GeForce 256) to work properly and = they=20 only had tar balls available to download. Does anyone have any bright ide= as? --=20 :-)~Mike~(-: On Monday 03 February 2003 09:16 pm, Derek Neighbors wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:05, Michael Havens wrote: > > How do I determine unsatisfied dependencies of a tar ball with a list= of > > dependencies? > > Depends. > > You either download tar/balls of the dependencies and compile them and > their dependencies or you go install the packages for the dependencies > for the distribution you are using. > > That said, unless you are doing development on something or need some > wierd configurations (or just love optimizing things), I suggest using > packages instead of tar balls, or of course if you just demand compilin= g > everything use Gentoo or BSD Ports which support the equivalent of tar > ball packaging. ;) > > my 2 cents