[K12OSN] Anyone know how to solve this yum error?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 22:40:02 UTC 2009


Dan Young wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> and try again. If it still doesn't work, try:
>> yum install yum-downloadonly
>> yum --downloadonly install libgcrypt
>> then go find the downloaded rpm (somewhere under /var/cache/yum) and see if
>> you can get rpm to update it or at least get a sensible error message about
>> why this isn't a simple update.
> 
> JFYI,
> 
> yum-utils includes yumdownloader, which is nicer that having to go
> grab RPMs out of /var/cache/yum, etc.

I normally do a 'yum -y --downloadonly update' ahead of time (and go 
away) for machines where I would baby-sit the actual update and reboot, 
so I'm used to having the rpms available there.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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