'Check RPM dependencies

When you are installing a program using .deb packages on Ubuntu, you can check dependencies of package using Ubuntu Packages Search. For example I can see dependencies of Wireshark from here. As you can see, dependencies marked by red bullet. If you know all packages your program depends them, you can download and install them using dpkg.

Is there any alternative website for RPM packages? Specially for RHEL?

I know that I can get these packages' names by other methods such as when installing RPM package using rpm -i, but it is not user friendly and needs access to running Linux.

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Solution 1:[1]

To merely list all dependencies of a package on the command-line, here is an example which builds upon the answer by Peter:

$ PKG="http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/redhat/rhel-6.2-x86_64/pgdg-sl93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm"

Using yum (recommended):

$ yum -q deplist $PKG
package: pgdg-sl93.noarch 9.3-1
  dependency: sl-release
   Unsatisfied dependency
  dependency: /bin/sh
   provider: bash.x86_64 4.1.2-8.el6
  dependency: config(pgdg-sl93) = 9.3-1
   provider: pgdg-sl93.noarch 9.3-1

-q above is of course optional and is equivalent to --quiet.

Using rpm:

$ rpm -qpR $PKG
/bin/sh  
config(pgdg-sl93) = 9.3-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
sl-release

-qpR above is equivalent to --query --package --requires.

Solution 2:[2]

This site http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ provides a search engine for rpm files. You can see dependencies and description. It also classifies them per distro.

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