I got this issue on an FC8 server where if I search for something in yum, it finds the packages I am searching for but then when I go to install the package it says its not there...?
[hamstar@tankian ~]$ yum search pecl
php-pecl-apc.i386 : APC caches and optimizes PHP intermediate code
[hamstar@tankian ~]$ sudo yum install php-pecl-apc.i386
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package php-pecl-apc.i386 available.
Nothing to do
[hamstar@tankian ~]$ sudo yum install php-pecl-apc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package php-pecl-apc available.
Nothing to do
wtf?
EDIT: Yum update shows this:
[hamstar@tankian ~]$ sudo yum update
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
EDIT: I also tried this and tried it all again with no luck:
[hamstar@tankian ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
EDIT: So i just realized this package is installed, but replacing the package name for pyqt (and variations of) which is not installed gives the same results. Here is the output for a package that is already installed on my other FC8 server.
[root@dolmayan ~]# yum install php
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package php - 5.2.4-3.i386 is already installed.
Nothing to do
RESOLUTION
In Alex's comment down there he said go to this fedora wiki page so I did and followed the commands:
wget http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/fedora-release/8/6.transition/data/signed/4f2a6fd2/noarch/fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpm
su -c 'rpm -Uvh fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpm'
Got the key from here emptied the old gpg key and pasted the new one into it.
su -c 'echo > /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9
sudo vi /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9
Then I ran:
su -c 'rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9'
Done!
I would start with:
and then try
Try omitting the arch from the package spec:
Do a yum update and try again. This happens when your local package index is getting old and new versions of packages are beeing released.
Best wishes, Fabian
The package isn't already installed, is it?