On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:10 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:

I am running up against a less than helpful error message when trying to install php-pear-DB (why people cannot content themselves with all lowercase packages names escapes me, but that is a rant for another time and place). After enableing centos-plus and adding includepkgs=php-pear-DB I get this:

# yum install php-pear-DB Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only Finished Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package php-pear-DB.noarch 0:1.7.6-6.el4.centos set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: php-pear(PEAR) for package: php-pear-DB --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php-pear(PEAR) is needed by package php-pear-DB

# yum install php-pear(PEAR) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

# yum install php-pear-PEAR Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only Finished Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: php-pear-PEAR Nothing to do

# yum whatprovides php-pear-PEAR Searching Packages: Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only Finished Importing Additional filelist information for packages filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 963 kB 00:18 centosplus: ################################################## 286/286 Added 286 new packages, deleted 0 old in 41.20 seconds No Matches found

So, what is php-pear(PEAR) and how do I get it installed? Can anyone help?

Regards, Jim

you must either use \ to escape ( and ) (like this php-pear(PEAR)

OR

use single quotes like this

'php-pear(PEAR)'

so

yum whatprovides 'php-pear(PEAR)'

AND

the answer is:

I do not see anything that provides that in my repos