On 3/26/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is it possible with yum and with only one instruction to install not a > > certain package but all its dependencies? > > > That is the normal behaviour. You ask for one package, and if you already > have all the dependencies you will get one package. If you haven't got them > all you may find that it says it needs to install 3 or more. It always asks > permission before installing. Thanks, Anne, but it is not what I wanted to mean: imagine that the package x.rpm has, as dependencies, the packages y.rpm and z.rpm; in this case, I would like to install only the dependencies, i.e., only y.rpm and z.rpm, and NOT x.rpm. Paul
