On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:39 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Dave Burns wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> shouldn't yum > >> install <package name> pull in and install all the dependencies provided you > >> pointed yum to the package on your hard drive? What do I have wrong? > > > > No, that would attempt to load the package from a remote repository. I > > think you mean > > > > yum localinstall <path to rpm file> > > > > That will install an rpm and use the repositories to attempt to > > resolve any dependencies the rpm has. > > Sorry for the mistake. I just came over from RedHat 7.3 (yeah, that old) > and yum is new to me. Thanks for straightening me out. ---- yikes...culture shock udev, iptables, 2.6 kernel, modprobe.conf, xinetd... luckily, things like 'yum --help' and 'man yum' should be in your hitting zone though. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
