On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:45 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > im very new to RH, and even more so to YUM, but i need to install it > on a RHEL 7.2 server, which i have done but installing the RPM > package, and updated it via the Centos2 archives. The program i am > trying to install is bacula, a backup/tape program on one of our old > servers, we need to upgrade to a newer version. I didnt want to deal > with the deps, so i thought yum was the way to go. well, it cant find > bacula, and i even downloaded the rpm from their website, and tried to > get yum to install it that way "yum install bacula.rpm" and that > doesnt work either, i get a: > > # yum install bacula-mysql-1.38.5-4.101mdk.i586.rpm > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: CentOS-2 base > Getting headers from: CentOS-2 updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Cannot find a package matching bacula-mysql-1.38.5-4.101mdk.i586.rpm > > can anyone shed some light on this for me? im kinda lost here. ive > googled and found some good centos docs, but it doesnt solve my > problem, the "localinstall" switch i guess is not supported anymore > according to something i read on the net, and it doesnt work either > when i try it. > > how can i get this installed with something that will handle the deps > for me? am i even asking the right question? thanks for any help you > can give. ---- you aren't likely to have much success with yum installing mandriva packages. I haven't a clue whether there is a bacula package in any centos repositories but very doubtful for centos-2 suggest you just build from source rpm for you setup...you can get source rpm's from bacula project download pages. Craig