On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:23, 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. > > 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. Hmm - when the unsigned install failed, didn't it tell you what was missing? I don't think there's a one-click solution to this, but it shouldn't be very hard to track down the dependencies. I think that when I needed an unsigned one installed I used rpm -Uvh to install it, though. Anne
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