On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:18, Teilhard Knight wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:48:28PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: >>> How do I install a local rpm package? It is in my HD, and the >>> documentation >>> about handling packages does not tell me how to do it. Thanks. >> >> rpm -ivh packagename.rpm > >Thanks very much. However, I have read that the rpm command doesn't > care for dependencies, is it true? > >Teilhard. No package manager system willing tolerates dependency errors. And they all will tell you about them as they abort the operation. Yum, which is a manager for rpms and uses rpm in its operations, will attempt, as will apt-get and most others, to go out and find those missing dependencies and will install those too so that your package works as intended. On this ancient FC2 install, I use yumi, which is a gui for yum. There are others extant also. This is the grand scheme of things in the real world that exists on the third rock from a class G star we call the sun. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
