Re: depenancy problem: prevent yum from downloading a package I already have
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:45:47 -0400
Rahul wrote:
I just tried a "yum install octave" (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)
Although I have a working gnuplot on my system yum insists on trying to redownload and install it. Any way to prevent this? (I know that the yum default gnuplot that RHEL ships was obsolete so I had installed gnuplot manually from source after doing a 'yum remove gnuplot')
Yum keeps a record of what it has installed. It does not check the system for what has been installed by something else.
Obsolete does not mean useless or that it makes errors.
If you can find an rpm of the newest version use yum to install it with --nogpgcheck and localinstall. I guess if you can create your own rpm package from what you have installed that would work too.
But if you insist, get the original package you installed, let yum do its thing which will create an installation record. Then reinstall the latest version.
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