On Sunday 26 March 2006 12:40, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. > All I can suggest, then, is to ask yum for the original package, then when it lists the necessaries, reject the install and give a new yum command listing the required dependency packages. It seems a rather strange requirement, so telling the reason for the requirement may spark of some better solution from a more knowledgeable poster. Anne
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