On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:49:06AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:36:27PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > If you want to install RPMs you've downloaded yourself, just use rpm to > > install them: > > # rpm -Uvh your.first.downloaded.rpm your.second.downloaded.rpm ... > > FWIW, the develop version of yum can work on local downloaded files too, > which is nice if you've missed some dependencies. > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > Current office temperature: 72 degrees Fahrenheit. > However if you want yum to install files found on your machine they have to be in a directory hierarchy that corresposnds to the one laid out in the yum.conf file. Usually to avoid confusion I make the hierarchy the same as that in the repository the files came from. -- ======================================================================= It's no use crying over spilt milk -- it only makes it salty for the cat. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
