<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> >I appreciate that there may be things i want to do that are arcane and obscure, but i<br>
> >don't think the above operations qualify.<br>
><br>
> I wasn't going to interject as I don't have anything useful to add<br>
> to the original question.<br>
><br>
> Funny thing is that I was thinking that you were trying to do<br>
> something quite out of the ordinary.<br>
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</div> not at all -- it's something i've done on fedora a number of times.<br>
sometimes, you just want to download an rpm file and install it from a<br>
local directory, and "yum localinstall" lets you do just that. it<br>
will use your configured repos to resolve any dependencies. i don't<br>
think that's a particularly arcane operation.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>Paul seems to have nailed it with gdebi-core package.<br><br>As an aside ...<br><br>Going to debian from Mandriva (which is RPM based) was a mindset change for me.<br><br>The old way was using Google to search for .rpm's, find which version they are built for,<br>
downloading them, installing them using rpm -ivh, only to find that there are unmet<br>dependencies.<br><br></div></div>These days are gone with Debian. The repository solves all that.<br><br>Yast tried to solve that, but still, if you want to rpm -i something, you have<br>
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