yum installs
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jul 26 21:04:06 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 17:10, John Dangler wrote:
> I am trying to install an rpm of Sablotron which currently resides on my
> local drive. rpm -iv complains about dependencies, so I tried to install it
> with yum, since the man page says that if yum doesn't find the package name,
> it assumes a shell glob and looks for that. I fully qualified the name of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the rpm, but yum says that it cannot find a package matching that name. Did
> I misunderstand the man information?
>
> Thanks.
> John
>
If by this you mean something like <package_name>.<version>.rpm this is
not the correct way to use yum.
"Yum install <package_name>" is the correct way.
>
>
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