On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM, hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install lighttpd in CentOS 5.2, but yum list lighttpd > returned an error of "no matching packages to list". Should it be > installed from source tarball? lighttpd is not part of the default operating system, which is why yum can't find it. Rather than installing from source (bad idea on a system using package management), you should use one of the 3rd party repositories. These repositories augment the base package set with a number of other options. See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell