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Here's an example of using rpm --nodeps to juggle using yum and cpanp to manage packages.

In this example I am using yum to install intltool, which depends on perl packages managed by cpanp:

  1. I ran 'yum --disableexcludes=all install intltool', but answered 'n' to Is this ok [y/N]: in order to get a list of the dependencies for intltool.
  2. I then used cpanp to check that the dependencies were all present (they were, and most of them were substantially newer than the so-called updates yum wanted to install. Sigh.)
  3. Next, I used 'yum info' plus the baseurl from the appropriate repository in /etc/yum.repos.d to build the rpm command. I ran 'yum info intltool', saw that intltool was from the fedora repository, looked up the baseurl in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo, subsituted '8' for $releasever and i386 for $basearch, added 'Packages' after /os/ (that might change in a future release), and then constructed the rest of the package name. You'll get used to the pattern.
  4. I did a test run to check I had the command right: 
    rpm -vv --test --nodeps --install http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/intltool-0.36.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
  5. Finally, I installed intltool 
    rpm -vv --nodeps --install http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/intltool-0.36.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm

    -- HilaryHolz - 02 Mar 2008
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r8 - 02 Jan 2009 - 04:32:02 - HilaryHolz
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