On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Giulio Sorrentino wrote: > Satish Balay wrote: > > > The thing to do here is look for the .src.rpm - and and build it > > locally and create local yum repository for all such packages. > > > > If not - you could do (with yum-2.1): > > > > wget foo.rpm > > yum localinstall foo.rpm > > > > At leat this will try to resolve the dependencies - and do the install. > > > > Satish > > > I think that is stupid create a local mirror when with a simply rpm -ivh you > resolve the problem in less time... For one - the thread started with 'click-to-install' in a filebrowser. And clueless folks who want to 'just install with rpm' end up using 'rpm --force' and mess up their config - and complain later about the distribution/tools being broken. Hence the sugestion to do most things with more appropriate tools like yum. Satish
