[ale] adobe reader install

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 11:27:32 EDT 2014


Thank you Adobe for being such slackers. They sign flash rpms.

Yum REQUIRES signed packages. You can manually install it with rpm -ivh
<URL of rpm> --nosignature
On Mar 25, 2014 11:13 AM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm trying to do my GA taxes and to do them on line I apparently NEED
> the Adobe reader.
>
> So I download the package from Adobe and run (as root) yum localinstall
> <adobe package.rpm>.
>
> Everything chugs along down to:
>
> Install 17 Package(s)
>
> Total size: 141 M
>
> Installed size: 155 M
>
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>
> When I hit the "y" I get
>
> Downloading Packages:
>
>  Package AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm is not signed
>
> [prompt]
>
> And the package does not install.
>
> Now what? I checked the man page but didn't see any switch/option that
> would ignore the lack of a signature.
>
> Sean
>
>
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