Add/Remove programs

duncan brown duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Thu May 20 19:32:10 UTC 2004


venkata ramana said:
>
> The problem with this is I don't have the headers directory in the ftp
> server of our LAN. I have the packages only in the ftp server. yum is
> saying that failed to find the headers. My ftp server's directory
> structure is like the link
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os but,
> without the headers and SRPMs directories. Is there a way to use yum to
> install packages with yum from this ftp server also?

if you have root on this server, go into the directory with the rpms and
enter this


yum-arch .

that will create the headers.

-d

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