[Gimp-print-devel] I have an update problem.

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Jul 1 13:14:37 UTC 2007


On Sunday 01 July 2007, Thufir wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:10:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>Whether or not this is possible in Fedora depends upon how they decided
>>>to package it.  I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I would suggest
>>>checking the package contents and dependencies to figure out why.
>>
>> That means I have to get the package to my machine.  Is there such a
>> command that will cause yum to download only?
>
>man yum shows:
>
>       command is one of:
>        * install package1 [package2] [...]
>        * update [package1] [package2] [...]
>        * check-update
>        * upgrade [package1] [package2] [...]
>        * remove | erase package1 [package2] [...]
>        * list [...]
>        * info [...]
>        * provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...]
>        * clean [ packages | headers | metadata | cache | dbcache | all ]
>        * makecache
>        * groupinstall group1 [group2] [...]
>        * groupupdate group1 [group2] [...]
>        * grouplist [hidden]
>        * groupremove group1 [group2] [...]
>        * groupinfo group1 [...]
>        * search string1 [string2] [...]
>        * shell [filename]
>        * resolvedep dep1 [dep2] [...]
>        * localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
>        * localupdate rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
>        * deplist package1 [package2] [...]
>        * repolist [all|enabled|disabled]
>
>
>would deplist, repolist, info, do the trick?
>
deplist might be educational, but a download only, then let me take it apart 
and copy what I need with mc would be nice.  And I don't see that option 
above.  Darnit.

>
Thanks, Thufir



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