[Yum] yum quesiton...

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Apr 24 18:18:48 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, bruce wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > is there a way to use yum to allow me to point yum at a given rpm and tell
> > it to install/upgrade the package, and yum will figure out what to do??
> > reading through google, and actually trying it didn't get much success...
> >
> >  kindof  --> 'yum install package_foo.rpm"
> 
> just
> 
> # yum install <package_name>
> 
> no ".rpm".

in yum 2.2.X you can do yum install /path/to/rpm

and it will install it.

I think that's what Bruce was asking about.

-sv





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