Benjamin,

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:

> 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>
> 

Note that 

  yum list <package>

can use wildcards in case you are not sure of full packagename.

   yum list acro*
   yum list mpl*

-Connie
> 
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
> 
> 
>