[CentOS] EPEL problem

Phil Dobbin

bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 21:08:23 UTC 2014


On 24/11/13 00:09, Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 24.11.2013 00:57, schrieb Phil Dobbin:
>> I'm trying to install the EPEL repo on a fully up to date CentOS 6.4.
>> I'm using wget to download from my usual source but after I install it
>> via `sudo rpm -ivh epel-xxxxx` it's not actually there in
>> `/etc/yum.repos.d`.
>>
>> Trying to install it again, Yum just tells me it's already installed.
>>
>> I've no idea where it is installed if it is (which I don't think it is)
>> so I'm stumped.
>>
>> Any help appreciated
>
> thats why "rpm -q --filesbypkg <packagename>" exists


Returning to this thread after a considerable break (I'm sorry, I've 
really been quite unwell) here is the output of 'rpm -q --filesbypkg 
epel-release' & the directory listing itself:

'$ rpm -q --filesbypkg epel-release
epel-release              /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
epel-release              /etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm
epel-release              /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
epel-release              /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
epel-release              /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6
epel-release              /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6/GPL
[Sat Jan 25 20:45:24 phil at localhost:~ ] $ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
[Sat Jan 25 20:45:43 phil at localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d ] $ l
./   CentOS-Base.repo       CentOS-Media.repo  mirrors-rpmforge 
mirrors-rpmforge-testing
../  CentOS-Debuginfo.repo  CentOS-Vault.repo  mirrors-rpmforge-extras 
rpmforge.repo'

It's the same deal with 'yum list epel-*' That also reckons it's installed.

I'm flummoxed as to how to proceed.

Cheers,

   Phil...

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