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Hello, Right now my fc6 machine is not connected to the internet, and whenever i try to install the ndiswrapper RPM's or any other RPMs it wont install b/c the ...
  1. 03-13-2007 #1
    mstshtml
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    Installing RPM's w/o internet

    Hello, Right now my fc6 machine is not connected to the internet, and whenever i try to install the ndiswrapper RPM's or any other RPMs it wont install b/c the rpm install manager or whatever keeps trying to connect to the internet and it says "cannot check for updates or something similar to that, then the installer cancels.
    how can i install rpms w/o being on the internet?
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    You don't install RPM files using yum or apt-get. To install a stand-alone RPM file, use rpm:

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    rpm -i nameOfYourRpmFile.rpm
    You will likely need to have root privileges in order to do this.
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