<p dir="ltr">Rpm --rebuilddb</p>
<p dir="ltr">May be just one dash</p>
<p dir="ltr">Or go straight to the</p>
<p dir="ltr"> yum install <web source for epel repo></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2016 5:12 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">do that; get this:<br>
<br>
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep epel<br>
epel-release-7-5.noarch<br>
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum remove<br>
epel-release-7.5.noarch<br>
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks<br>
No Match for argument: epel-release-7.5.noarch<br>
No Packages marked for removal<br>
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<br>
Sean<br>
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On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 16:55 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> rpm -qa | grep epel #show what is installed<br>
> remove the existing epel with<br>
> yum remove <what you found from above><br>
> yum install <a href="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-relea" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-relea</a><br>
> se-7-5.noarch.rpm<br>
> NOTE: I don't see konquerer in the repo at all so this all might be<br>
> moot. Thunderbird?<br>
> On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 16:37 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:<br>
> > Things are getting weird here.<br>
> > used chmod to make the file epel-repo writable by all so I didn't<br>
> > have<br>
> > to stumble my way through vi while in a root shell(chmod 666<br>
> > filename)<br>
> > and edited to file to make sure that every instance of enabled= was<br>
> > set<br>
> > to =1. (NOTE:I am NOT trying to start another flame war over vi. I<br>
> > just<br>
> > do not know it and would prefer to not waste my time at age 72 trying<br>
> > to<br>
> > learn its basics. Other graphical editors suffice for the minimal<br>
> > editing I need to do on config files. When I took my first compsci<br>
> > course, vi did not exist.)<br>
> ><br>
> > Tried to save the file and got this:<br>
> > "The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write<br>
> > to /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.<br>
> > Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk<br>
> > space<br>
> > is available."<br>
> ><br>
> > My first thought was WTF.<br>
> ><br>
> > More confused than ever,<br>
> ><br>
> > Sean<br>
> ><br>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> > --------<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 15:35 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> > > Edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo file and make sure enabled=1<br>
> > > for<br>
> > > [epel] section<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Jim.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On 02/12/2016 02:28 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:<br>
> > > > Sometimes I just stay confused.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > I did as instructed as was told, "Package epel-release-7-5.noarch<br>
> > > > already installed and latest version<br>
> > > > Nothing to do"<br>
> > > > BUT, when I look in /etc/yum.repos.d that repo is NOT listed.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > And FindFile routine can find it either.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > still confused.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Sean<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 07:05 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> > > > > I don't know for sure, but it might be in epel try<br>
> > > > > sudo yum install epel-release<br>
> > > > ><br>
> > > > ><br>
> > > > ><br>
> > > > ><br>
> > > > > On 02/11/2016 11:31 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:<br>
> > > > > > Tried both already.<br>
> > > > > ><br>
> > > > > > "Warning: No matches found for: Kontact"<br>
> > > > > > and this:<br>
> > > > > > "No Package Kontact available"<br>
> > > > > > Also tried with "kontact"<br>
> > > > > ><br>
> > > > > > Is there some other repo that might have these packages?<br>
> > > > > ><br>
> > > > > > Tried the KDE web page. The link for Fedora apps is broken.<br>
> > > > > ><br>
> > > > > > Sean<br>
> > > > > > -----------------------------------------------------------<br>
> > > > > > ---<br>
> > > ><br>
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