Re: packages.rpm question ...

[Erick Calder <ec arix com>]

whichever package it is that you want to install is likely to be
available as a tarball.  you can install the tarball without running
rpm.

<Benedict.Arnold@uk.lionbioscience.com> wrote in message
news:<399920EC.1CFD02F@lionbio.co.uk>...
> I want to install a .rpm file without updating the packages.rpm
database
> ... anyone know :
>
> 1. If you can do this
> 2. How you do it ...
>
> this might seem like an odd thing to do, but as I don't have root
access
> to the linux box in question and I'm tired of hassling my sysadmin
(and,
> more to the point, he's tired of me hassling him), I have access to
the
> dir that the stuff is going to be put into but not the packages.rpm
> database files ...
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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