[CentOS] EPEL problem

Phil Dobbin bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 21:30:57 UTC 2014


On 25/01/14 21:12, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

> On 01/25/2014 10:08 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Or am I misunderstanding you...

Cheers,

   Phil.

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