On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:37:40PM -0700, Earl Eiland enlightened us: > > On 11/11/05, Earl Eiland <eee@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Can I use yum to install something from FC 4 CD's? This machine has no > > > Internet connection. > > > > > > > Yes, but it will involve extracting the cds and creating a local yum > > repository from them. There are several tools available on the > > internet that will do this for you if you're lazy, but it's really not > > that hard. > > Does this mean copying the rpm's to a common directory? > Yeah, you just need to copy all the RPMs to a directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo ." You *may* have to install the createrepo rpm first, which hopefully is on the FC4 CDs. Otherwise you've got a catch 22 :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
