Forcing YUM to install devel packages

[Paul Howarth]

kevin.j.lisciotti at jpmchase.com wrote:
> I currently have an issue with Evolution 2.0.2 where I can't sent mail due
> to some SMTP errors but receive mail just fine. After researching the
> problem, I found that it was fixed in 2.0.3 and higher. I was going to
> manually install the current development version 2.1.4, but after seeing
> the dependencies list I quickly changed my mind.
> 
> Is there a way to tell yum to install the development version while
> satisfying the long list of dependencies? As an interim fix I am using
> Kontact from KDE, but would like to return to Evolution.

You could do it using:

# yum --enablerepo=development update evolution

but you would be a braver man than I to do that. I'd try to fix the SMTP 
issues if I was you. What problems are you having?

Paul.