Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 11:00 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: Your coworker is wrong. yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified ported from Yellowdog Linux for the PowerPC) is an intelligent front end for rpm (Red Hat Package Manager) that adds dependency resolution capabilities. They both use the rpm API and

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 01:52 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: Have you dealt with Oracle support? Don't need to for 2 reasons. The first is that my initial issue was most probably a cockpit error, and the second is I know several Oracle employees, a couple of whom were students in my class when I taught at

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread genomega
-Original Message- From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Sent: Jan 31, 2011 11:06 AM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products On 01/30/2011 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: The question was just

yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than yum(8). My question is that is there any specific advantage

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than yum(8). My

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: 2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 Jon Ingason wrote: The main difference is that yum(8) try to solve dependency while rpm(8) does not. That, and the next time you use yum after using rpm, yum will scream at you about modifying the database outside of yum :-). I find it very useful to use

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 10:00 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 10:46 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 . If I disable the adobe repo while installing the manually downloaded acroread rpm, the dependencies get satisfied by the fedora repos, and I automagically get all the 32 bit support libs I need. Great tip ..

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable the repo since I now have the fedora versions

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8). Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. Have you dealt with Oracle support? -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 10:52 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. Have you dealt with Oracle support? No, but I used to do tech support for an ISP at senior level. IMAO, most of the phone firewall had no

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 11:34 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable