On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:53 -0500, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:47:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > [...] > >> rpm -Uvh \ > >> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc4/i386/RPMS.dries/ > >>rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm > >> > > > > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > > package rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf is already installed > > > > It's Friday night, and all sensible people stop trying to be intelligent, and > > grab a bottle instead. > > One other trick, that sometimes works and is easier when it does. When you > do the rpm and get a dependency failure -- say "requires ... X ... Y ... > Z," try doing "yum install X Y Z" and then (assuming yum success) arrowing > up to do the rpm again. Usually works with Pine from UW, for instance. Normally you can just use yum to do this for you: $ sudo yum localinstall some.rpm This will attempt to install the rpm you've downloaded, plus any dependencies it needs (X, Y, and Z in your example). It didn't work in Anne's case because she hadn't yet imported the GPG keys for the repository she was trying to use, so a "raw" rpm command was necessary on that occasion. Paul.
