Re: Yum Install

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >    I have had real success with yum install when told what to get. I 
> > want to install Adobe Acrobat and my previous method was to go get it 
> > from the Adobe web page.
> >
> >    But I'm not at all certain it is available from yum. If it is, 
> > what is key word to use? Now where do you find these key words? I 
> > have been not having luck with yum if I try to guess the right key word.
> >
> >
> >
> > Karl
> You can get it from Dries, or you can just get the RPM from the Adobe 
> web page. There should be no real difference. With the one from the 
> webpage, you can yum localinstall it (might get GPG errors though) or 
> just rpm -Uvh it. See fedorafaq.org for the cp line to put the browser 
> plugin in the right place for mozilla/firefox.
> -Dan
   Well your saying that with Adobe Acrobat just do it the old way. So 
I am on the Adobe web page and it will be down in 15 minutes. It's a big 
program. And since this is how I used to do it I will use rpm -i since 
I'm not upgrading anything.

Karl