Yum install not working

Question

I have a newer version of an rpm that I want to install.

A yum list shows i have xyz-1-10.rpm installed and xyz-2-10.rpm available.

I ran "yum clean all", then ran "yum install xyz-1-11.rpm".

Note that i have a local yum repository, and my yum.repos.d/my.repo looks like:

[my]
     name=My Repository
     baseurl=http://yum.my.com/yum/my/
     gpgcheck=0

Also, when i did a yum search xyz-1-11.rpm, it is listed. So the rpm is in the repository, but it just won't install it.

Answer 1

You need to add the line:

enabled=1

For example

[my]
name=My Repository
baseurl=http://yum.my.com/yum/my/
gpgcheck=0
enable=1

My repo's .repo file

[lamolabs]
name=LamoLabs Repo
baseurl=http://www.lamolabs.org/yum-repos/Fedora/14/$basearch
## gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY.lamolabs.org
gpgkey=http://www.lamolabs.org/yum-repos/RPM-GPG-KEY.lamolabs.org
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Additional things to do

createrepo

After you've setup a directory, shared it via HTTP, you'll need to run this command in each sub directory of the repo.

createrepo -dp .

I usually use a script like this:

destdir="/home/install_area/linux/yum-repos/Fedora/14"
for arch in i386 x86_64 noarch; do
  printf "\n\n==== creating repo: %-50s [%-s]\n" $destdir $arch
  pushd ${destdir}/${arch} >/dev/null 2>&1
  createrepo -dp .
  popd >/dev/null 2>&1
done

signing

Optionally you can sign your RPMs with this command:

find . -name "*.rpm" -print0 |xargs -0 rpm --resign

Also don't forget to import your RPM key into RPM:

rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.lamolabs.org

Answer 2

First off try:

yum list --showduplicates xyz

...this will show all versions of the packages. If the package you want to upgrade to isn't in that list, something is wrong on the repos. side. To upgrade to it you should be able to do:

yum upgrade xyz-1-11.rpm

...although the "yum install" should get to the same point, it's possible there is a bug/feature that is changing that. If you have a newer version of yum you can do:

yum upgrade-to xyz-1-11.rpm

...to make it explicit (as upgrade can be given "from" or "to" packages, and kind of has to guess which one it has been given).

Worst case you can use the versionlock plugin to exclude all the versions of the package apart from the one you want, and then just do a simple "yum upgrade".

Also "yum clean all" is very rarely what you want to do. If you just want to make sure you have the latest repo. metadata you can do "yum clean expire-cache" or (on newer versions of yum) "yum makecache fast".

Answer 3

I've run into the same problem.

ENVIRONMENT:

• RHEL 6.2
• yum-3.2.29-43-el6_5.noarch

SYMPTOMS:

• My upstream yum repo has been confirmed to contain my RPM.
• Other boxes have this RPM install correctly from the same repo.

FAILED INSTALL ATTEMPT METHODS:

• sudo yum install $RPM => "nothing to do"
• sudo yum localinstall $RPM => "nothing to do"

WORKAROUND:

• sudo rpm -i $RPM; rpm -q $RPM => "correctly installed"

No solution here, but at least a workaround...