[BlueOnyx:02845] Re: metamail package

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Welcome to the list!

JW Simpson wrote:
> I was under the impression that BlueOnyx is a RedHat derivative?

BlueOnyx uses CentOS 5 as it's base, which is fundamentally identical to 
RHEL 5.

> Can I download the .src.rpm from a RedHat repository and use 'rpm -i' ?

Well, you could.  Just watch out for dependencies.  The trouble with 
installing RPM's manually is that if you take in other RPM's which are 
relied upon to make the metamail work, then you're going to wind up with 
dependency issues which could lead to real problems down the road.

 > Can I not download the package and install it without dinking with the
 > yum settings?

Yes, you could wget the package and then do "rpm -ihv" for it.  (-i for 
install, -h for hash and -v for verbose so you can see what's going on.) 
   If all the dependencies are met, then you'll have no problem.   If 
dependencies are not met, then... well, best to try and install those 
missing packages via YUM so you'll at least have the CentOS 5 versions.

 > I would certainly appreciate any assistance. (I've gotten really spoiled
 > with aptitude ...)

Potato, potahto.   YUM and Aptitude are both just package managers 
designed to resolve discrepancies and avoid dependencies.  If the 
package isn't released for the distro, the package manager won't be of 
much help.

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