On 10/29/2013 4:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> [hennebry at localhost rpms]$ ls >> >atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.i686.rpm rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm >> >epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm >> >[hennebry at localhost rpms]$ >> >? > Yes you can use a local copy of the rpm and either 'rpm -Uhv' it or > 'yum localinstall' it. > or: > >>> >>URL to the repo release rpm, yum can install for you with: >>> >>yum install URL > If you have the http URL that you used to download the rpm manually, > you can just 'yum install URL". Older versions of yum could not do > that so the documentation may not mention the simple approach. you also can... # rpm -ivh http://path.to/yum/repo/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm and rpm will wget the URL then install the downloaded file. this has worked for a LONG time. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast