Do we need this crap on LWN?
Do we need this crap on LWN?
Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:50 UTC (Wed) by mrons (subscriber, #1751)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by evgeny
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
How about:
yum localinstall somerandom.rpm
Posted Feb 22, 2007 0:55 UTC (Thu)
by mrons (subscriber, #1751)
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Just to expand on what this does, yum looks at what dependencies somerandom.rpm has and installs those with somerandom.rpm
somerandom.rpm does not have to belong to some {un}official repository.
So it's like "rpm -i" except that repositories are consulting to resolve dependencies.
Can I do something like "apt-get somerandom.deb" and have dependencies resolved for me?
Posted Feb 22, 2007 1:51 UTC (Thu)
by spotter (guest, #12199)
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if you
dpkg -i some.deb
that will try to install it, but it wont configure due to missing dependencies.
and
apt-get install -f
will then fix it as it will resolve the missing dependencies and configure everything.
Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:47 UTC (Thu)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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> yum localinstall somerandom.rpmDo we need this crap on LWN?
not directly.Do we need this crap on LWN?
I use wajig as my do-everything debian package tool. It supports 'wajig install <packagename>' as well as 'wajig install ./a_package-3-3_i386.deb'Do we need this crap on LWN?