No public key available and yum

[Stuart Sears]

Paul Smith enlightened us with the following gems on 08/29/2005 10:07 AM:
> On 8/29/05, Peter Boy <pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> 
>>>Is it possible to install packages without any public key available with yum?
>>
>>Edit the corresponding repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d and set gpgcheck=0
>>
>>There is a wonderful Fedora Docu about yum, by the way, see
>>
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/index.html
> 
> 
> Thanks, Peter. But I am trying to install a rpm which is on my hard
> disk and not on any repository... :-)
> 
> Paul
> 
edit /etc/yum.conf
comment out the gpgcheck=1 line
(remember to put this back later)
then
yum localinstall mypackage-1.0-1.rpm
(or whatever it's called)

you could also just try and install it without using yum first, if you
like...


Stuart
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