{"thread":{"id":"9370","subject":"RPMs for latest release","startedAt":"2007-08-03T19:25:25Z","lastAt":"2007-08-03T21:36:09Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["rdavid274","Junio C Hamano","Linus Torvalds"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"49625","messageId":"46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net","threadId":"9370","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"RPMs for latest release","fromName":"rdavid274","fromEmail":"rdavid274@centurytel.net","sentAt":"2007-08-03T19:25:25Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-03T19:25:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rdavid274@centurytel.net","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\nDownloaded the 10 rpms necessary for a complete install however, there \nis NO single rpm that is independent of the other rpms.\n\nEvery rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have been \nalready installed.\n\nSo, how does a newbie deal with this issue?\n\nrdp\n"},{"id":"49627","messageId":"7vejikmk24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"9370","inReplyTo":"46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net","subject":"Re: RPMs for latest release","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2007-08-03T20:37:07Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-03T20:37:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"rdavid274 <rdavid274@centurytel.net> writes:\n\n> Every rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have\n> been already installed.\n>\n> So, how does a newbie deal with this issue?\n\nA newbie will probably learn how to use rpm to deal with this\nissue, I would presume.\n\nSorry, I do not run rpm based distro myself, but I would imagine\n\"rpm -i\" (if -i is the \"install\" subcommand, I dunno) would take\nmore than one package name on the command line to be told to\ninstall all of them at once?\n"},{"id":"49636","messageId":"alpine.LFD.0.999.0708031433080.8184@woody.linux-foundation.org","threadId":"9370","inReplyTo":"46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net","subject":"Re: RPMs for latest release","fromName":"Linus Torvalds","fromEmail":"torvalds@linux-foundation.org","sentAt":"2007-08-03T21:36:09Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-03T21:36:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"torvalds@linux-foundation.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4"},"body":"\n\nOn Fri, 3 Aug 2007, rdavid274 wrote:\n>\n> Downloaded the 10 rpms necessary for a complete install however, there is NO\n> single rpm that is independent of the other rpms.\n> \n> Every rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have been\n> already installed.\n> \n> So, how does a newbie deal with this issue?\n\nYou should be able to do\n\n\trpm -Uvh <list-all-rpms-here>\n\nand be all good.\n\nIn other words, if you have dependencies, you need to resolve all the \ndependencies in one go by listing the packages together.\n\nOf course, you could also just force rpm to ignore dependencies (the \n\"--nodeps\" flag, iirc), but that's usually a bad idea - it just means that \nyou will be all the more likely to have a non-working setup because you \nforgot some package or other, and since you told rpm to ignore it, it \nwon't tell you.\n\nThat said, most rpm distros tend to make things much easier for you by \nletting you just run \"yum\", which will do all of this for you, and then \nyou can generally just do\n\n\tyum install git\n\nand it will download all packages and install them by dependencies.\n\n\t\t\tLinus\n"}]}