yum install from CD

[Paul Howarth]

Rino Mardo wrote:
> i've gone over the yum online faq/handbook and either i'm thick or 
> confused.
> i just need to figure out how to tell yum to install packagename.rpm from
> one of the five CDs that comes with FC5. you see with debian and freebsd,
> they have utilities to list the names of packages (installed or not) in 
> case
> you don't know how a certain package is named.

Yum does not currently support installing from CDs (this is planned for 
a future release).

If you have the ISO images used to make the CDs, you can get yum to use 
those though:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

Paul.