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. Taking my example above, x.rpm is not supplied by any repository; then, a simple method to install it is yum localinstall x.rpm With this procedure, I will know the dependencies, which I will install before rpm -ihv x.rpm as "yum localinstall" is not able to install x.rpm due to the fact that x.rpm is not signed. Paul
