installing rpms from yum

[Mostafa Z. Afgani]

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Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:22:05AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
>>However if you want yum to install files found on your machine they
>>have to be in a directory hierarchy that corresposnds to the one laid
>>out in the yum.conf file. Usually to avoid confusion I make the
>>hierarchy the same as that in the repository the files came from.
> 
> 
> What do you mean?
> 
> tmp$ ls
> tmp$ wget ftp://[...]/tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
> [...] `tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm' saved 
> tmp$ ls
> tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
> tmp$  sudo yum install tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> bulinux-base              100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> bulinux-updates           100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Examining tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm: tidy -
> 0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386
> Marking tidy-0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3.i386.rpm to be installed
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
>  
> Dependencies Resolved
>  
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  tidy                    i386       0.99.0-0.fdr.2.  tidy-0.99.0-0.fd  253 k
>  
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 253 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: tidy                         ######################### [1/1]
>  
> Installed: tidy.i386 0:0.99.0-0.fdr.2.20040916.2.bu45.3
> Complete!
> 
> 

Which version of YUM is that? Doesn't look like anything I've seen
before....

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