JOY 'yum --nogpgcheck ...' rpm --nosignature"

[sgoldman-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org (stephen goldman)]

Thank you !
   " rpm --nosignature" & importing keys  are new topics for me - I will 
research further..
Success!
Stephen

[root at bmc-33 ~]# rpm --nosignature -iv xdg-utils-1.0.2-2.el5.noarch.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
        package xdg-utils-1.0.2-2.el5.noarch is already installed

[root at bmc-33 ~]# rpm --nosignature -iv R-2.9.0-1.rh5.x86_64.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
R-2.9.0-1.rh5


You don't have the rpm gpg key for whatever repo the xdg-utils package
came from installed on that box. So either find the key and import it,
or just install the package by hand using rpm, or install it using
'yum --nogpgcheck ...'



Stephen Goldman
System Administrator
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street, 68-316e
Cambridge, Ma. 02139
617-452-2595
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Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 5:13 PM
Subject: Fw: Trying to install R - trouble installing depedency Fw: 
install - xdg Public key for xdg-utils-1.0.2-4.el4.noarch.rpm is not 
installed [help.mit.edu #921802]


> Hi Steve,
>
> regarding your question about installing an rpm that has a signature 
> problem... there's a switch for rpm where you can tell it to ignore the 
> signature:
>
> rpm --nosignature blahblahblah
>
> Of course the suggestion comes with a warning that you need to be sure 
> that your package is "okay" meaning that it came from a truster source. 
> Otherwise --nosignature should work for you.
>
> You can read about that command switch in the rpm man pages.
>
> Regards,
> The Computing Help Desk
>
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