On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 17:10, 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 > If by this you mean something like <package_name>.<version>.rpm this is not the correct way to use yum. "Yum install <package_name>" is the correct way. > >