On 24/11/13 00:09, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 24.11.2013 00:57, schrieb Phil Dobbin: >> I'm trying to install the EPEL repo on a fully up to date CentOS 6.4. >> I'm using wget to download from my usual source but after I install it >> via `sudo rpm -ivh epel-xxxxx` it's not actually there in >> `/etc/yum.repos.d`. >> >> Trying to install it again, Yum just tells me it's already installed. >> >> I've no idea where it is installed if it is (which I don't think it is) >> so I'm stumped. >> >> Any help appreciated > > thats why "rpm -q --filesbypkg <packagename>" exists Returning to this thread after a considerable break (I'm sorry, I've really been quite unwell) here is the output of 'rpm -q --filesbypkg epel-release' & the directory listing itself: '$ rpm -q --filesbypkg epel-release epel-release /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 epel-release /etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm epel-release /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo epel-release /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo epel-release /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6 epel-release /usr/share/doc/epel-release-6/GPL [Sat Jan 25 20:45:24 phil@localhost:~ ] $ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [Sat Jan 25 20:45:43 phil@localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d ] $ l ./ CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge mirrors-rpmforge-testing ../ CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Vault.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras rpmforge.repo' It's the same deal with 'yum list epel-*' That also reckons it's installed. I'm flummoxed as to how to proceed. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Ubuntu Raring & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos