Update Yum Package Using Localinstall

Update yum package using localinstall

Answer is, it depends on how some-package is packaged. In general, most of the .rpms packaged with foo-version-release.rpm gets obsoleted by the same package foo with version++ and/or release++.

Looking at your some-package, if you would run yum localinstall some-package-2.0.0.rpm (note, not with -y), then you would see message from yum, something like this:

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package foo.x86_64 0:1.0.0 will be updated
---> Package foo.x86_64 0:2.0.0 will be an update

This tells that yum is going to update the package and remove the old one. yum resolves these dependencies whereas a rpm -ivh won't do it.

Now, there are special cases, e.g., kernel where it will be installed on the system side-by-side with the old one, unless you manual invoked a rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm command.

Equivalent command to the yum localinstall would be two-fold,

# This will fail if some-2.0.0 is designed to obsolete some-1.0.0
$ rpm -ivh --test some-2.0.0.rpm  

whereas following would succeed:

$ rpm -Uvh --test some-2.0.0.rpm  

Note, I am using --test to do a dry-run. One needs to remove it for a real installation.

How to install all rpm dependencies and map local to created YUM repository?

yum doesn't remember what repo it was installed from. When you asked yum for any info about any packages it knows about named http-parser, it told you it knows of the one that is currently installed. It uses the reserved name "installed" for that purpose.

How to update CentOS packages with dependencies without access to a repository

Apparently the error happens because not all the dependencies are listed in the command. All 4 pacemaker components have to be updated at once and the command that does this is:

sudo yum install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/pacemaker-libs-1.1.18-3.el6.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/pacemaker-cli-1.1.18-3.el6.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/pacemaker-1.1.18-3.el6.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/pacemaker-cluster-libs-1.1.18-3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Avoid yum error when a package is already installed

Use the packages directive:

packages:
  rpm:
    webcore-fonts: http://somesite.com/rpm/webcore-fonts-3.0-1.noarch.rpm

This will handle not installed and already installed scenarios.

How to install software on a prorietary linux distro with no repos given?

There are few possible ways:

1. activate your RHEL machine.. This include create account in RH. And
   its free for small number of machines. More info here.

2. Download the package and do a local install:

   dnf localinstall package.rpm

You should download and install all dependent packages also.

To update you can use nondocumented option:

dnf localupdate package.rpm

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