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Abe
Asked: 2011-10-20 12:08:31 +0800 CST

How to install gedit using yum

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I'm trying to install gedit on an Amazon EC2 instance running Redhat 4.4.4-13. I thought it would be as easy as

sudo yum install gedit

But that just gives me:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
amzn-main                                                | 2.1 kB     00:00     
amzn-updates                                             | 2.1 kB     00:00     
Setting up Install Process
No package gedit available.
Error: Nothing to do

Trying "yum repolist all" gives me this:

repo id                          repo name                        status
amzn-main                        amzn-main-Base                   enabled: 2,463
amzn-main-debuginfo              amzn-main-debuginfo              disabled
amzn-main-nosrc                  amzn-main-nosrc                  disabled
amzn-updates                     amzn-updates-Base                enabled:    86
amzn-updates-debuginfo           amzn-updates-debuginfo           disabled
amzn-updates-nosrc               amzn-updates-nosrc               disabled
repolist: 2,549

So it looks as though this machine doesn't have any of the usual repositories, including those with gedit. How do I install those? I can't find any documentation on this.

linux yum installation amazon-ec2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You don't appear to be running Red Hat, but Amazon Linux. Since this is designed to be a server instance, they may have chosen not to provide desktop tools such as gedit.

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  2. This works in CentOS so it should be fine in RedHat.

    cd /etc/yum.repos.d
vi name.repo

    Then inside of that add the following:

    [nameofrepo]
name=Description of the repo you're adding
baseurl=URL of the repo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=RPM GPD Key

    Then do a rpm --import of the GPD key URL and you should be set.

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