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Here are the steps you need in order to resolve dependencies automatically:

1. You need to install the rpmdb-redhat package so the file dependencies can be determined. (It is on Installation CD #2)
   
   
2. Load the packages. Make the RPM releases from Red Hat Enterprise Linux release available. The contents of the directory RedHat/RPMS on each of the three install CDs should be available in a single directory on the local system.
   
   
3. Create two RPM macros. One called _solve_pkgsdir and one called _solve_name_fmt. The first macro should name the directory holding the packages in step 2. One way of doing this is to create a file /root/.rpmmacros containing the following lines:

    
   %_solve_pkgsdir /path/to/my/packages
   %_solve_name_fmt%{?_solve_pkgsdir}%%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%\{ARCH}.rpm
   

4. Now with these in place, you may now use the --aid option to resolve dependencies. When installing, use it to invoke the dependency resolution.

   Example:

   rpm -ivh --aid <package_name>