On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John R Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/15/11 1:12 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick reponses guys - tried that and it still does not
>> work which tells me I need those PG repos afterall, I guess. No
>> biggie. My desired for a "clean" system has been smashed, but I'll
>> live :-)
>
> did yum say what specific packages it needed ? I'm pretty sure you have
> to use 'yum localinstall' to install from an rpm file, and not just
> 'install'...
from man yum:
* localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...]
(maintained for legacy reasons only - use install)
and further:
If the name is a file, then install works like localinstall.
Actually, I've been using localinstall, but I started to use
install a few months ago.
--
Dale Dellutri
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