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Install RPM with yum

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January 31st, 2010 mysurface Posted in yum | Hits: 20996 |

I am a Linux user for couple of years, and I am using fedora for quite sometimes too. To install the packages that I need, first I will check them out at my repository using yum.

yum search something

p.s Replace ’something’ with your keywords.

If I manage to obtain the package list, I can install them like this:

yum install something

But that is not always the case. Sometimes the packages I need is just not exist under my repository, I can only obtain the rpm files from the external site. By installing rpm file using rpm command introduces a problem. I have to resolves the dependencies of the particular rpm myself.

Then, I have to search more rpm files to resolve the dependencies.

But today, I realized that I could install rpm files using yum, and yum resolves the dependencies for me. The command line is quite straight forward too. Let say I wanna install ’something.i586.rpm’, I can install it with yum like this:

yum install something.i586.rpm

Thanks to yum developers, it save a lots of my time.

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