FC2 and RPM
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 16 21:02:27 UTC 2004
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Giulio Sorrentino wrote:
> Satish Balay wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Giulio Sorrentino wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On yum/up2date you can find only a minimal part of all rpm...
> > > If you know what are you doing yum/up2date are not useful...
> > >
> >
> > Don't understand what you mean by 'find only a minimal part of all
> > rpm'.
> >
> > And yum is a pretty good tool for folks who know what they are doing
> > as well. It dones't do everything you can do with rpm (but then you
> > dones't want to replace rpm)
> >
> > Satish
> >
> Try to find a you repository that contains "tkgate" software for fedora...
The thing to do here is look for the .src.rpm - and and build it
locally and create local yum repository for all such packages.
If not - you could do (with yum-2.1):
wget foo.rpm
yum localinstall foo.rpm
At leat this will try to resolve the dependencies - and do the install.
Satish
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