Re: RPMs for latest release

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, rdavid274 wrote:
>
> Downloaded the 10 rpms necessary for a complete install however, there is NO
> single rpm that is independent of the other rpms.
> 
> Every rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have been
> already installed.
> 
> So, how does a newbie deal with this issue?

You should be able to do

	rpm -Uvh <list-all-rpms-here>

and be all good.

In other words, if you have dependencies, you need to resolve all the 
dependencies in one go by listing the packages together.

Of course, you could also just force rpm to ignore dependencies (the 
"--nodeps" flag, iirc), but that's usually a bad idea - it just means that 
you will be all the more likely to have a non-working setup because you 
forgot some package or other, and since you told rpm to ignore it, it 
won't tell you.

That said, most rpm distros tend to make things much easier for you by 
letting you just run "yum", which will do all of this for you, and then 
you can generally just do

	yum install git

and it will download all packages and install them by dependencies.

			Linus