The Uni of Edinburgh does not use yum on its supported (LCFG) SL5.x 
platform. We have to installed each and every rpm.

Faye

On 27/04/10 14:13, Tim Edwards wrote:
> On 27/04/10 15:08, Faye Gibbins wrote:
>> When doing "rpm -ivh<url to xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi>  " there
>> does't seem to be another uri pointing to another rpm that will satisfy
>> the dependency that i can add to the command line.
>>
>> but then we aren't using yum
>>
>> Faye
>
> What's wrong with just 'yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi' or
> if you actually just wanted emacs then 'yum install emacs'?
>
> If you try to install RPMs individually you'll get these problems, which
> is why programs like yum (and the repositories behind them) were invented.
>
> Tim
>


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