[Yum] Question about yum as an rpm helper ...
Michael Stenner
mstenner at phy.duke.edu
Sat Nov 15 17:24:55 UTC 2003
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:18:41PM +0200, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> Okay, I download an rpm, but it was 101 deps, and I don't know where
> to start to find half these other rpms ... would it be possible to use
> yum to download the other deps/rpms if they all exists in someones repo
> with was in your yum.conf?
Yes. This is the reason why yum exists. This is exactly what it
does. You say "yum install apache" and yum fetches apache and all its
(recursive) dependencies.
-Michael
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