On 01/26/2014 03:29 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>>> It's the same deal with 'yum list epel-*' That also reckons it's installed. >>>> >>>> I'm flummoxed as to how to proceed. >>> >>> try yum reinstall >> >> The problem with that is that it wasn't installed by yum in the first >> place. I used wget to grab it. > > that doesn't matter, think of yum as a front-end for rpm that can get > rpm files from configured repos along with their deps. If you just have > an rpm file downloaded with eg wget you can also install it with > yum install <whatever>.rpm > > In your case it seems something went wrong installing the rpm, or > someone messed with the files. In any case your rpm database thinks the > package is installed but you don't have the files where they should be, > so you want to remove that rpm and reinstall it. You can do that with > yum reinstall epel-release*.rpm > OR with > rpm -e epel-release > rpm -Uvh epel-release*.rpm (or yum install epel-release*.rpm as > suggested by Ljubomir) > > If you still don't have the files after that your rpm is probably > corrupt (you can check with rpm -K *.rpm), DL it again and retry. > Maybe "yum-complete-transaction" can help solve the problem. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant