Re: installing rpms from yum

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:41:46 +0100
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    Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
    > Matthew Miller wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:22:05AM -0500, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>However if you want yum to install files found on your machine they
    >>>have to be in a directory hierarchy that corresposnds to the one laid
    >>>out in the yum.conf file. Usually to avoid confusion I make the
    >>>hierarchy the same as that in the repository the files came from.
    >>
    >>
    >>What do you mean?
    >>
    >>tmp$ ls
    >>tmp$ wget ftp://[...]/tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
    >>[...] `tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm' saved
    >>tmp$ ls
    >>tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
    >>tmp$ sudo yum install tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
    >>Setting up Install Process
    >>Setting up repositories
    >>bulinux-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
    >>bulinux-updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
    >>Reading repository metadata in from local files
    >>Parsing package install arguments
    >>Examining tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm: tidy -
    >>0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386
    >>Marking tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm to be installed
    >>Resolving Dependencies
    >>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
    >>---> Package tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3 set to be updated
    >>--> Running transaction check
    >>
    >>Dependencies Resolved
    >>
    >>=============================================================================
    >> Package Arch Version Repository Size
    >>=============================================================================
    >>Installing:
    >> tidy i386 0.99.0-0.fdr.2. tidy-0.99.0-0.fd 253 k
    >>
    >>Transaction Summary
    >>=============================================================================
    >>Install 1 Package(s)
    >>Update 0 Package(s)
    >>Remove 0 Package(s)
    >>Total download size: 253 k
    >>Is this ok [y/N]: y
    >>Downloading Packages:
    >>Running Transaction Test
    >>Finished Transaction Test
    >>Transaction Test Succeeded
    >>Running Transaction
    >> Installing: tidy ######################### [1/1]
    >>
    >>Installed: tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3
    >>Complete!
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    > Which version of YUM is that? Doesn't look like anything I've seen
    > before....

    If you were following the thread earlier, you'd see that it was the
    version in rawhide (development), which will be included in FC4.

    Paul.

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