fc5 install trouble

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

The ideal fix would be to point yum at my DVD drive. Anyone know how to 
do this? I've found yum to be a little lacking in man page help.

Cheers. Steve.


Brad Smith wrote:
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> The problem with doing an rpm -Uvh * in a situation like this is that rpm refuses to install any
> packages matched by a glob if one or more of them produces an error and unfortuately rpm treats
> "this package is already installed" as an error. A kludgey, slow, but effective solution might be
> something like this:
>
> cd /media/cdrom # or whatever
> cd RedHat/RPMS
> for p in *.rpm; do n=$(echo $p | sed 's/\.rpm//'); rpm -q $n || rpm -ivh $p; done
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> I haven't tested this, but I think it should work. Like I said, though, it's a bit kludgey. There's
> probably a better solution out there somewhere.
>
> - --Brad
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