Add/Remove programs

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

venkata ramana wrote:

>On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:32:10 -0400 (EDT), duncan brown
><duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>venkata ramana said:
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>>>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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>Isn't there a way to do the things without creating headers? I am
>asking this because I don't have the permission to log into the server
>and create headers.
>  
>

you can try
# rpm -Fvh ftp://server/your_packages/i386/package*
works sometimes

or

$ wget -cr --passive-ftp ftp://server/your_packages/

and here you can do yum-arch and use "file://" in your yum.conf
or "dir" in your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

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shrek-m