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I'm trying to install a LAMP stack in a fresh red hat server but yum is misbehaving. Being linux illiterate I'm at a loss.

$yum install httpd
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
No package httpd available.
Nothing to do

My yum config

$ cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1 

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h

# Default.
# installonly_limit = 3

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Other stuff in the yum.repos.d dir

$ ls -lah /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Feb  4 01:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4.0K Feb  4 01:28 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  561 Mar 10  2010 rhel-debuginfo.repo

What could be going on? I thought "out of the box" RHEL5.5 would be friendlier :)

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  • You could try yum provides httpd to try to track down the right package, but you might also want try which httpd (or whereis httpd or something similar) because the binary may actually be installed already. Also voting to move this to Server Fault, it seems a better fit there.
    – eldarerathis
    Feb 4, 2011 at 2:22
  • @eldarerathis, here's the output of your commands: yum provides httpd Loaded plugins: security Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames. You can use "*/httpd" and/or "*bin/httpd" to get that behaviour No Matches found which httpd /usr/bin/which: no httpd in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin) whereis httpd httpd:
    – Julian
    Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58
  • Hey, you might be missing some RPM's. I'm not sure which RPM exactly, but I ran into an issue like this over a year ago.
    – anthonynonso
    Feb 4, 2011 at 5:13

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I figured it out. Since this server was automatically created using an image from the cloud it never got registered with the red hat network. After doing that, yum started behaving again.

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  • Yeh, I was going to suggest that this might be the case due to the "No package httpd available." line. "yum repolist" will generally let you know what is happening.
    – James Antill
    Feb 8, 2011 at 15:13
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Did you check if the RPM is located in your CD or ISO?

RHEL Server 5.5 has a file /Server/httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.x86_64.rpm

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  • I don't really have an ISO since this is a Cloud Server. I'll dig around for that RPM and if I can find it I'll try to install from that.
    – Julian
    Feb 4, 2011 at 4:43

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