Dear Derick,
Derick, I am well. Thank you for asking. How are you?
Yes I do remember you. You have always been a great help to many
people including myself.
I had actually changed my yum code to search that directory and that
is when I had gotten the errors, so I downloaded it and this is where my
ignorance kicked in high gear, never having downloaded and installed an rpm
without yum before. :-p
Anyway, I want to thank you again as the second part of the message
helped me immensely. I had tried the man pages earlier but for some reason
had not seen the proper way to install it. Once again you have helped me
very much and so again I thank you Derick.
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Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай
http://nstanosheck.WordPress.com
On Sat Mar 10 06:21:58 MST 2007, Derick Centeno wrote:
Hi Deacon Nikolai:
How are you? Exchanges between us have spanned across a great deal of
time; hopefully you'll remember.
If you will permit me to clarify for you the use of yum, it may be
helpful.
The explanation addressing your complaint is that yum is designed and
optimized to download, search and install rpms from various YDL mirrors
located across the net.
If you go to /etc/yum.conf and read the code it's as clear as day there;
in other words yum is not looking at the single rpm file you downloaded
manually. Yum doesn't "see" it because the rpms which Owen posted is not
within the mirrors. Owen posted it only in one place and yum is not
looking there and has no instructions how to do so.
Ok?
So how to install the rpm you downloaded? Very simple, there is a
command surprisingly enough called rpm which also exists within YDL. Do
the following:
#rpm -ivh thenameofthefile.rpm
if there is any message announcing that there is a conflict, then try:
#rpm -ivh --force thenameofthefile.rpm
Good luck... Derick
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Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай wrote:
> Dear Owen,
>
> Sorry to be a pain, but in YDL 3 I was getting errors when trying to
> install from that directory using YUM, could you tell me the simplest
> way to install the RPM for Yellow Dog Linux 3.x please? Thank you in
> advance!
> --
> Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай
> http://nstanosheck.WordPress.com
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