[Yum] Direct RPM install?

[Tim Lauridsen]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:

> Hi y'all,
>
> A question.  I upgraded by laptop to F12, which went fine, and then
> proceeded to "dress" it by adding on a handful of non-repo RPMs as I'm
> guessing many people do.  This particular time I added e.g. the
> VirtualBox rpms, as I wanted to experiment with alternatives to non-open
> VMware.
>
> Sun provides an F12 RPM (not in a repo, of course, grrr) so I grabbed it
> and proceeded to try a straight rpm -Uvh install.  Naturally it had a
> string of a dozen dependencies in its dependency tree, and I found
> myself right back in RPM hell, helped a little bit by yum (I could do
> yum provides to find rpms that filled in the missing pieces easily
> enough, and then do a yum -y install) but RPM hell nontheless.
>
> Which leads me to my query.  I'm guessing that this isn't an uncommon
> situation -- a homebuilt RPM or RPM provided by a third party that won't
> just "install" because it isn't in a repo, even when all of its
> dependencies ARE in connected repos.  Can yum do that?  e.g. is there a
> mode or add-on that lets one:
>
>  yum install VirtualBox-whatever.rpm
>
> so that yum creates a dependency list from the rpm itself and then does
> its yum-thing and looks in its repos for a list of rpms to resolve the
> recursive dependency tree, then installs the whole thing for you?
>
>   rgb
>
>
If you don't need USB support in VirtualBox then you can just type

yum install kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-PAE

to install the open source edition of VirtualBox (You need to have the
rpmfusion repos enabled)

Then you dont have to mess with compiling your own kernel modules etc.

Tim
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