by the way for future reference "yum provides */kalarm" would have told you if it was in a package with a different name than you expect. also I always check rpm.pbone.net its very useful for finding rpm's in 3rd party repos.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mark Stodola <stod...@pelletron.com> wrote: > That is a source rpm. It contains the source files and settings to build > the binary packages for a target system. Installing it would give you the > files necessary to run it through rpmbuild. You would then need to install > the resulting package, assuming you have all of the required libraries and > development tools needed for a successful build. Many people use a tool > called mock to help accomplish this. > > > On 06/02/2015 12:35 PM, t...@telekon.org wrote: >> >> this version is independent, >> http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm >> >> can it be installed with yumex? or should i use one of these, >> >> su yum localinstall kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm >> >> yum install kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm >> >> su -c 'yum -y install kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm' >> >> (i'm about ready to give up) >> >> --- Original Message --- >> From: Mark Stodola <stod...@pelletron.com> >> To: "scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov" <scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov> >> Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? >> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 >> >> On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: >>> >>> can you make a repo install the version that you want, >>> instead of the latest version? >>> >>> i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/ (ver. 0.8) >>> >>> but instead i keep getting version 1.0 >>> >>> -Tini >> >> >> If you look carefully at that repo, you will notice that 0.8 is for EL 5 >> and below. If you are getting 1.1, I am guessing you are on EL 6. >> >> There are ways to specify versions/roll back, but in this case I don't >> think it is a good idea to mix packages like that. >> >> If you are feeling adventurous you could try it I guess. >> Just include the full release info in the package name I think. >> kaffeine-0.8.7-1.el5.rf.x86_64 >> >> Alternately, you can just download by hand and toss it in with yum or >> rpm. If you have automated yum updates, it will get caught and upgraded >> unless you exclude/blacklist it. >> >
