Yum install resolving dependencies

In the gentoo world you simply do it like this "emerge -e ". It seems yum should be able to do something similar. I guess I could cobble together a script to list the deps and then parse those out and re-install all of them. If you're on Fedora and using dnf it's very easy. Just use the dnf history rollback feature. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to use yum to reinstall all dependencies of a given package? To ensure we can get v1. Some rpms are not avaialble in yum. There you have it! No more manually specifying all rependencies on the offline machine, simply rely upon yum. If you need to modify the local repository, you will need to run createrepo , but also need to run clean metadata on the offline machine.

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. This seems to work perfectly for new installs, the new dependency is resolved and installed as expected. The problem comes when I try to update an existing installation For some reason the new OpenSSL dependency is not resolved or installed, is this expected behavior and if so how should I go about adding additional dependencies to existing software packages?

The problem is linked to epoch numbering. However the openssl package provides The epoch number is the most important number. NOTE : when you make a clean install and openssl was not yet installed; yum takes the latest version by default; which tricked you into thinking that your requirement worked.

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Seems to be working even on rpm files. Exactly what I was looking for. Anybody want to own up to the -1?