How to install dependencies of an rpm package without installing the package itself? (rhel/fedora)
You can use the yum deplist
command to generate a list of package dependencies:
$ yum deplist bind
dependency: /bin/bash
provider: bash.x86_64 4.3.39-5.fc21
dependency: /bin/sh
provider: bash.x86_64 4.3.39-5.fc21
dependency: bind-libs(x86-64) = 32:9.9.6-10.P1.fc21
provider: bind-libs.x86_64 32:9.9.6-10.P1.fc21
dependency: coreutils
provider: coreutils.x86_64 8.22-22.fc21
[...]
Grab the provider:
lines from this for a list of packages:
$ yum deplist bind | awk '/provider:/ {print $2}' | sort -u
bash.x86_64
bind-libs.x86_64
coreutils.x86_64
glibc.i686
glibc.x86_64
grep.x86_64
krb5-libs.x86_64
libcap.x86_64
libcom_err.x86_64
libxml2.x86_64
openssl-libs.x86_64
shadow-utils.x86_64
systemd.x86_64
zlib.x86_64
Send this output to yum install
to install the packages:
$ yum deplist bind | awk '/provider:/ {print $2}' | sort -u |
xargs yum -y install
The best way is:
yum shell <<EOF
install foo
ts solve
remove foo
run
EOF
...using deplist/etc. will mostly work, but isn't guaranteed to get the exact same result.