installing rpms from yum

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 29 11:36:27 UTC 2005


Jimmy Barnett Jr wrote:
> ok now when i download rpms from the web for fedora 3 core..what folder
> do i put them in and how do i use yum to install them?

You don't.

Yum downloads the RPMs itself, puts them where it wants them (somewhere 
under /var/cache/yum) and installs them itself.

If you want to install RPMs you've downloaded yourself, just use rpm to 
install them:

# rpm -Uvh your.first.downloaded.rpm your.second.downloaded.rpm ...

Paul.




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