Im new to Linux and have read all the great things about RPM's, but
whenever I try to install anything it always failes due to
dependencies. At time 20 or more. I tried installing those missing
files from the RH Cd's but only a few (like 2-3) are contained......I
then need to search the web with obscure .so file names and get them
individually from many many sites which is terrible time consuming and
frustrating. Not all are on the RH website. How can anyone find rpms
so great??

Question:

Should I just resort to downloading the .tar or .gz version of
programs instead of RPMs? Or am I doing wrong.

Thanks