>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:39:09 -0800, Dave
>> <fedora-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:01 am, Kam Leo wrote:
>>> >
>>
>>>> > >
>>>> > > It's a bug in yum. I've had this happen many times to me. Yum goes
>>>> > > off to check dependencies and then exits. Just run 'yum update' again
>>>> > > and everything will install.
>>
>>> >
>>> > After three tries, it still hadn't ... but I'll try it again, then try "yum
>>> > update yum" and go again. I'm assuming it's better to be in runlevel 3 so
>>> > X/KDE/etc aren't running?
>>> >
>
>>
>> Depending on its setting SELinux may have an impact.; X/KDE/Gnome
>> should have no impact on yum. I prefer using yum over up2date because
>> I don't want to be bothered with clicking through the up2date dialogs.
>> I open a terminal in KDE or Gnome and let yum take care of the
>> updates.
>>
>> If you continue having difficulties upgrading yum with yum don't beat
>> yourself over the head, install what you got in the cache using "rpm
>> -ivh *.rpm". The important part is to get your system in working
^
|
Ops, should be "rpm -uvh *.rpm"
>> order. You can attend to yum at a later time. Try apt-get or smart, >> http://smartpm.org , as alternatives. >>
I think the command that you are looking for is:
rpm -Uvh "rpm name" --force *not sure if you need the --force.
-bitbucket00
