Trivial question

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Jan 22 04:46:25 UTC 2006


On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:18, Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:48:28PM -0600, 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 -ivh packagename.rpm
>
>Thanks very much. However, I have read that the rpm command doesn't
> care for dependencies, is it true?
>
>Teilhard.

No package manager system willing tolerates dependency errors.  And they 
all will tell you about them as they abort the operation.  Yum, which 
is a manager for rpms and uses rpm in its operations, will attempt, as 
will apt-get and most others, to go out and find those missing 
dependencies and will install those too so that your package works as 
intended.  On this ancient FC2 install, I use yumi, which is a gui for 
yum.  There are others extant also.  This is the grand scheme of things 
in the real world that exists on the third rock from a class G star we 
call the sun.

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