On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have enabled the Fedora source repository so that I can install the symlinks source.l
> Having enabled the source repository I issued the command "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" (the binary package tells me the source is symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src.rpm) and got the following messages:
>
> sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src
>
> Updating and loading repositories:
> Repositories loaded.
> Failed to resolve the transaction:
> Argument 'symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src' matches only source packages.
>
> So I then issued the command "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src.rpm" and dnf tells me that rpm doesn't exist.
> Then issue the command "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src*" gives me the following messages:
>
> sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src*
> [sudo] password for steve:
> Updating and loading repositories:
> Repositories loaded.
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> Installing:
> symlinks src 1.7-11.fc41 fedora-source 15.2 KiB
>
> Transaction Summary:
> Installing: 1 package
>
> Total size of inbound packages is 26 KiB. Need to download 26 KiB.
> After this operation, 15 KiB extra will be used (install 15 KiB, remove 0 B).
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
>
> Is DNF actually working properly when with * in the package name the install is actually installing what I asked it to install in the first command?
Works for me:
sudo dnf download --source symlinks
Jeff
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