UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

this is proving to be a real pain to set up. i recently installed red hat 5.10 desktop version.

install went well. i've registered my system, but i cant seem to yum install simple packages.

i can install some packages, but many others i cant. for instance, i cant do a:

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yum install php

yum search php

when i do, i get a:

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no package php available

anything else i can try? i've enabled everything that has "enabled = 0" in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and that still didn't help.

try this to see what is in your repositories...

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yum list available

or

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yum list available | grep -i php

you can also download rpm's and use yum to intall them; you can also add additional repositories; as you may know, yum is used because unlike simple use of rpm, you will install depenedencies.

What is the output of the following command?

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# yum repolist