On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:10, John Dangler wrote: > I am trying to install an rpm of Sablotron which currently resides on my > local drive. rpm -iv complains about dependencies, so I tried to install it > with yum, since the man page says that if yum doesn't find the package name, > it assumes a shell glob and looks for that. I fully qualified the name of > the rpm, but yum says that it cannot find a package matching that name. Did > I misunderstand the man information? > > Thanks. > John Hi John, yum only "sees" the packages that are in the locations listed in /etc/yum.conf . The easy way is to setup yum to use Dag Wieer's repo which has slabotron. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B3 Or you could add the local directory to your yum.conf temporarily with an entry similar to this: [local-directory] name=local directory baseurl=file:///path/that/contains/your/package/ Run yum-arch from that directory to create the header(s) that yum uses. Then run yum update as usual and it will pick up your package. Wayne Steenburg
