On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 12:45 +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > 2. Using the rpm command to install a local rpm file does not > automatically install dependencies from a repo. Always use yum (or dnf > in newer CentOS or in Fedora) instead of the now old rpm program. > Minor correction: the rpm program is not 'old' or outmoded. It does what it has always done: installs the contents of an .rpm file without any attempt to resolve dependencies. Apart from having the ability to contain an optional dependency list and to list its contents and package descriptions, rpm does exactly the same job as zip or tar.
Using the dependency list in an rpm archive to pull in any other rpm archives that an rpm archive depends on is the job of yum or dnf, which use the dependency list on the requested archive(s) to search the rpm repository for any other rpm archives that the one(s) you requested depend on. What has changed is that yum has been replaced by dnf in more recent releases of Fedora, RHEL and CentOS. yum and dnf do the same job: resolve dependencies and then install the requested rpm archive(s) *along with* any other .rpm files that the ones you requested depend on. Bottom line: always use dnf or yum to install, erase, or update rpm packages held in a Redhat or third party repository. Only use rpm itself to install freestanding rpm archives which are not distributed as part of an rpm repository. Martin
