[K12OSN] Anyone know how to solve this yum error?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 22:40:02 UTC 2009
Dan Young wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> and try again. If it still doesn't work, try:
>> yum install yum-downloadonly
>> yum --downloadonly install libgcrypt
>> then go find the downloaded rpm (somewhere under /var/cache/yum) and see if
>> you can get rpm to update it or at least get a sensible error message about
>> why this isn't a simple update.
>
> JFYI,
>
> yum-utils includes yumdownloader, which is nicer that having to go
> grab RPMs out of /var/cache/yum, etc.
I normally do a 'yum -y --downloadonly update' ahead of time (and go
away) for machines where I would baby-sit the actual update and reboot,
so I'm used to having the rpms available there.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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