command wvdial not found

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 07 December 2010 13:16:01 suvayu ali wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Adil Adil <adil.drissi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The problem now is that even yum does not work properly. Does it nead an
> > internet connection to work properly?
> > 
> > because once i'm in fedora i'm not connected to internet.
> 
> yum needs an internet connection to download the packages for you. I
> think what you have to do is download the packages you want manually
> from the repos using some other computer with an internet connection.
> Then you can install with yum using,
> 
> $ yum install /path/to/rpm/*.rpm
> 
> But the difficult part is, you would need to figure out and download
> all the dependencies for your package yourself. I think the easiest
> solution for you is to go to some cafe/shop with free wifi (Starbucks,
> McDonalds or their equivalent in your country) and use the wifi to
> install your package with yum. Or you could connect using ethernet.
> Either way, getting connected to the internet somehow is the solution.
> 
> GL


I don't think there are any dependencies for wvdial. So it should be ok to 
just download it and localinstall it.

Tony
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