[ale] kde question

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 18:23:27 EST 2016


Rpm --rebuilddb

May be just one dash

Or go straight to the

yum install <web source for epel repo>
On Feb 12, 2016 5:12 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

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