[nflug] JRE in FC6 amd64 won't work

[Cyber Source]

default wrote:
> <snip>
>> I think apt-get totally kicks yum's butt however yum does have a handy
>> option that I have not found a similar option in apt-get and that is to
>> use it against a local package. "yum localinstall packagename" will do
>> what you want and get whatever the requirements are the package depends
>> on. I have never tried it but I would imagine apt-get would work the
>> same way as long as you put the *.deb (or rpm for that matter) in the
>> local archive so it could find it, just might work. However, with yum's
>> localinstall option, you simple need the path to the local file.
> </snip>
>
> The RPM directory in the prompt has the applicable RPMs.  My command was
> [stay at rest rpm]# yum localinstall jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm
> jre-1_5_0_09-linux-amd64.rpm
>
> Didn't work in my case, I'm afraid:
> Package jre-1_5_0_09-linux-amd64.rpm is not signed
>
> I did try with an absolute path reference too, with the same results.
>
> Thanks for the tip just the same.  I do have apt installed, so I *may*
> experiment with the corresponding DEBs.
>
> Doh!
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Actually that's another annoying thing about yum, if it fails on sigs or
one of the repos is down, it just shits the bed and stops. In apt's
case, for the sig, it should prompt you for a choice y/n if you want to
install it without the sig
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