Hi Benjamin,
Yum is working properly.  The problem is that in the base S.L. release, 
all the things you are looking for are not there.  You should do a

   yum list <packagename>

to see if it is there.

I'm not positive about acroread, but I do know that mplayer and it's 
pal's are in the DAG repository.  To enable the DAG repository you can 
edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo, and change enabled=0 to 
enabled=1.  Or, from the command line you can do
   yum --enablerepo=dag <command>
such as
   yum --enablerepo=dag list mplayer*

Troy

Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
> 
> I reinstalled SL last night. It went perfectly. All my devices were recognized 
> and configured properly (sound card, printer, video, etc.). My ftp works fine 
> but not through kget. Instead, I found that gftp works just fine. 
> 
> I then tested yum. It works fine in general, but I am mystified at not being 
> able to download and install certain programs from our own SL sources. 
> Specifically, these refer to acroread and mplayer. Here is the output:
> 
> Password:
> [root@localhost sher]# yum install acroread
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up Repos
> sl-base                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> sl-errata                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> sl-base   : ################################################## 1447/1447
> sl-errata : ################################################## 174/174
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: acroread
> Nothing to do
> [root@localhost sher]# yum install mplayer
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up Repos
> sl-base                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> sl-errata                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> sl-base   : ################################################## 1447/1447
> sl-errata : ################################################## 174/174
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: mplayer
> Nothing to do
> [root@localhost sher]#      
> 
> I would appreciate your help with this issue. I would like to be sure that yum 
> works perfectly. Could you please check and see if your yum is working 
> properly.
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Benjamin


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