[WBEL-users] RPM Gui?

[Eric B.]

Doesn't up2date and/or yum install directly from the repo though?  For
example, I want to install the latest version of MySQL.  So I can d/l the
MySQL rpm from mysql.com, but need to use rpm -i to install it.  If I try to
use yum or up2date, it complains that it can't find the rpm in the
repository (which is natural, since it isn't there).

Short of using rpm -i, is there anything else I can do to install the pkg?
The problem with rpm -i is that if there are dependencies missing, then I am
forced to go find them myself...

Thanks!

Eric


"William Hooper" <whooperhsd2@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2850.12.29.16.103.1081437280.squirrel@12.29.16.103...
>
> Eric B. said:
> > 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?
>
> Assuming the dependencies are in the repo you are configured for, yum and
> up2date can both install packages:
>
> up2date xmms
>
> yum install xmms
>
> -- 
> William Hooper