Trivial question

[Ben Stringer]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:26 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > Teilhard Knight wrote:
> >> How do I install a local rpm package? It is in my HD, and the 
> >> documentation about handling packages does not tell me how to do it. 
> >> Thanks.
> > 
> > rpm -i file.rpm
> 
> Thanks very much. Does rpm care about dependencies?

rpm "cares" about dependencies, but only reports the missing (file)
dependencies. It doesn't take care of locating dependent rpms and
installing them at the same time. yum does this.

Cheers, Ben

> 
> Teilhard.
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