yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

[Jon Ingason]

2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev:
> I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall
> oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My
> coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation
> manual specified it rather than yum(8). My question is that is there any
> specific advantage using yum(8) over rpm(8).
>
>

The main difference is that yum(8) try to solve dependency while rpm(8) 
does not.

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Regards
Jon Ingason