Octaviz, VTK, & Octave CMAKE???

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 10:00 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> Thanks for all the info to date, it has been invaluable.  I'll get the
> hang of this yet ;) 
> 
> Is there an advantage to installing via yum vs rpm -ivh?

They operate at different levels... If you try to rpm -ivh something,
and its deps aren't met, it'll simply tell you that and not install. If
you use yum, it'll try to find the packages that satisfy the deps and
install them along with the package. Its all rpm underneath, but yum
handles the "rpm dependency hell" for you. (very similar to how debian
uses the dpkg format, but apt to install and auto-solve dependencies)


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Jarod Wilson
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