On 4/29/2010 2:43, Faye Gibbins wrote:
> Well yes and no. I can, of course, use yum if I wanted. I'm a sys admin
> after all. However the way we configure our machines means that in
> essence yum is not available to be used to the installation of any rpms.
>
> On 28/04/10 16:57, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> Is the problem that you can't use yum at all or that you just can't use
>> yum for a specific set of rpms? If it's the second then you could always
>> try ``yum localinstall'' so yum can sort out the dependencies that *are*
>> in SL's repos.

``yumdownloader --resolve'' will look at the packages you have installed 
on a system and download not only the package you ask for, but also any 
dependencies it lacks.  You can then install them (hopefully all at 
once) with rpm.