Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 7/11/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> > Urivan Saaib wrote: >> >> Lan, >> >> >> >> If your rpm supports the --aid switch, you can do: >> >> >> >> cd /path/to/dvd/rpms >> >> rpm -ivh --aid MythDora-version.rpm >> >> >> >> and it should install the required dependencies,.. >> > >> > You mean I can install a downloaded rpm and the rpm program will make >> > use of yum (or?) to automatically resolve dependencies? =-O >> > >> > Whoa! I didn't know that. >> > Why has that feature been hidden from me? ;-) >> >> Because you didn't read the man page? From the yum man page: >> >> localinstall >> Is used to install a set of local rpm files. If required the >> enabled repositories will be used to resolve dependencies. >> > > Maybe because localinstall and localupdate are not present in Yum > before perhaps v3.0. > Definitely not there in v2.2.2. >
Hmmm, it _is_ in 2.6.1 (FC5) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
