[Yum] using yum with FC 4 install CD's.

[Matt Hyclak]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:37:40PM -0700, Earl Eiland enlightened us:
> > On 11/11/05, Earl Eiland <eee at nmt.edu> wrote:
> > > Can I use yum to install something from FC 4 CD's?  This machine has no
> > > Internet connection.
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, but it will involve extracting the cds and creating a local yum
> > repository from them. There are several tools available on the
> > internet that will do this for you if you're lazy, but it's really not
> > that hard.

> 
> Does this mean copying the rpm's to a common directory?
> 

Yeah, you just need to copy all the RPMs to a directory, cd to that
directory and run "createrepo ."

You *may* have to install the createrepo rpm first, which hopefully is on
the FC4 CDs. Otherwise you've got a catch 22 :-)

Matt

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