On Sunday 04 June 2006 20:29, Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: > Instantly I get a message to the effect of "repo not found". I wasn't > successful in finding useful help text for this error. 'repo not found' is likely from yum - it looks like it might be misconfigured. What files are in /etc/yum.repos.d ? Pirut is a (very new) graphical frontend to yum, which is a frontend to Fedora's repositories (core, updates, extras). If you run 'yum check-update' as root, does it die terribly? Do you have a net connection on this machine? > "Hey, install every package that's not already installed. Oh, by the way, > resolve the dependencies and install whatever is necessary to meet the > dependencies." That would be approximately 'yum localinstall *.rpm' - but - some packages may conflict (postfix and sendmail for example) and it probably will die. Your best bet is to fix up yum so that you can use pirut. > 2. Does anyone know the rpm syntax meaning "install whatever packages > available that are not already installed, resolving the dependencies and > installing those as appropriate?" That's way too complicated for RPM, which only does sanity checking for dependencies. Dave