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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