[WBEL-users] RPM Gui?

Jan-Albert van Ree javanree@vanree.net
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:21:40 +0200


On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:54, Eric B. wrote:

> Can up2date and/or yum be used to install a specific RPM pkg?  From my
> understanding yum or up2date are used to make sure you have the latest
> RPMs installed on you machine.  But if I want to install a new RPM app,
> can I use yum to install it and have it d/l all necessary dependencies
> for it automatically?  If not, is there something else out there that
> will allow me to do this?

It can... for instance if you don't have KDE but only XFree86 installed, the 
command "yum install kdemultimedia" will also install Qt and the base KDE 
stuff to satisfy dependancies.
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