On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/15/11 1:12 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Thanks for the quick reponses guys - tried that and it still does not >> work which tells me I need those PG repos afterall, I guess. No >> biggie. My desired for a "clean" system has been smashed, but I'll >> live :-) > > did yum say what specific packages it needed ? I'm pretty sure you have > to use 'yum localinstall' to install from an rpm file, and not just > 'install'... from man yum: * localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...] (maintained for legacy reasons only - use install) and further: If the name is a file, then install works like localinstall. Actually, I've been using localinstall, but I started to use install a few months ago. -- Dale Dellutri _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos