MHR wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:36 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > >> These suggestions are interesting but they do not address my question, >> which is: Why does yum not find bittorrent at Dag? >> >> I was able to install bittorrent from Dag's repository using the gnome >> graphical package installer so the package exists. Yum finds the >> repository for it obtains the package database from there. So why does >> >> yum --enablerepo=dag install bittorrent >> >> report: package not found? >> >> > > Maybe it's not there any more??? > > Go to rpmforge. > > mhr > It's still available from Dag. Without removing my working client, I can prove it with wget: [root at mavis ~]# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/bittorrent/bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm --15:24:45-- http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/bittorrent/bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm Resolving dag.wieers.com... 62.213.193.164 Connecting to dag.wieers.com|62.213.193.164|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm [following] --15:24:45-- http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm Resolving rpmforge.sw.be... 130.133.35.16 Connecting to rpmforge.sw.be|130.133.35.16|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1121680 (1.1M) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm' 100%[=========================================================>] 1,121,680 307K/s in 4.0s 15:24:51 (274 KB/s) - `bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm' saved [1121680/1121680] Ktorrent both either 32 or 64 bit are there, too. I tried only the 64 bit version: # wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ktorrent/ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm --15:22:41-- http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ktorrent/ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm Resolving dag.wieers.com... 62.213.193.164 Connecting to dag.wieers.com|62.213.193.164|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm [following] --15:22:41-- http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm Resolving rpmforge.sw.be... 130.133.35.16 Connecting to rpmforge.sw.be|130.133.35.16|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 11995092 (11M) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm' 100%[=========================================================>] 11,995,092 310K/s in 38s 15:23:20 (305 KB/s) - `ktorrent-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm' saved [11995092/11995092] What are the chances of the O.P. having a yum config file screwed up?