If I have an RPM located on a local disk -
what is the diffrefence between the following yum
commands?
sudo yum install /tmp/rpm_name.rpm
sudo yum localinstall /tmp/rpm_name.rpm
Note:
I use RedHat/CentOS 7.
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Sign up to join this communityIn RHEL 5 and previous versions, yum install
only accepted package names from enabled repositories, and did not accept paths to local RPMs; you had to use yum localinstall
to install these.
In RHEL 6 and later, yum install
accepts both package names and local filenames, so localinstall
is no longer necesary, but it's included for backward compatibility.
In RHEL 8, dnf localinstall
is simply an alias for dnf install
.
localinstall
only accepts paths until 8?
Nov 20, 2018 at 10:27
localinstall
was the old code and only accepts local paths through RHEL 7. In 8, the old code is gone and localinstall
is simply install
.
Nov 20, 2018 at 13:07
Note that in CentOS7 there is a subtle difference
sudo yum install <alreadyExistingPackage>
will give an error Error: Nothing to do
but the
sudo yum localinstall <alreadyExistingPackage>
will not give an error
If you run your script with -e option
#!/bin/bash -e
you will notice this difference