installing rpms from yum
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 29 14:41:46 UTC 2005
Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:22:05AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>However if you want yum to install files found on your machine they
>>>have to be in a directory hierarchy that corresposnds to the one laid
>>>out in the yum.conf file. Usually to avoid confusion I make the
>>>hierarchy the same as that in the repository the files came from.
>>
>>
>>What do you mean?
>>
>>tmp$ ls
>>tmp$ wget ftp://[...]/tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
>>[...] `tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm' saved
>>tmp$ ls
>>tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
>>tmp$ sudo yum install tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
>>Setting up Install Process
>>Setting up repositories
>>bulinux-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>>bulinux-updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>Reading repository metadata in from local files
>>Parsing package install arguments
>>Examining tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm: tidy -
>>0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386
>>Marking tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm to be installed
>>Resolving Dependencies
>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>---> Package tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3 set to be updated
>>--> Running transaction check
>>
>>Dependencies Resolved
>>
>>=============================================================================
>> Package Arch Version Repository Size
>>=============================================================================
>>Installing:
>> tidy i386 0.99.0-0.fdr.2. tidy-0.99.0-0.fd 253 k
>>
>>Transaction Summary
>>=============================================================================
>>Install 1 Package(s)
>>Update 0 Package(s)
>>Remove 0 Package(s)
>>Total download size: 253 k
>>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>Downloading Packages:
>>Running Transaction Test
>>Finished Transaction Test
>>Transaction Test Succeeded
>>Running Transaction
>> Installing: tidy ######################### [1/1]
>>
>>Installed: tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3
>>Complete!
>>
>>
>
>
> Which version of YUM is that? Doesn't look like anything I've seen
> before....
If you were following the thread earlier, you'd see that it was the
version in rawhide (development), which will be included in FC4.
Paul.
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