Like RPM in 7,8,9 (I have not used 10) you need to gather all the deps yourself to install some software. If you put everything in the same place and do a bulk install it works great (like with RPM -ivh *) I really reccomend you use yum and the software servers I pointed you at.
I managed to track down all the missing dependancies for the applications I wanted.
As soon as I install something new, I will use Yum. Thanks.