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Yum cannot find the package I want to install


I am trying to a simple command sudo yum install SDL2. I know that this package exists as per the SDL website:

Red Hat-based systems (including Fedora) can simply do "sudo yum install SDL2" to get the library installed system-wide, or "sudo yum install SDL2-devel" to get headers and other build requirements ready for compiling your own SDL programs.

However, when I try to execute my command, I get the following:

Setting up Install Process
No package SDL2 available.
Error: Nothing to do

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga). How can I go about getting yum to locate this package?


Solution

  • ONLY SDL is available on redhat 5.3

    uname -r
    2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64
    
    yum search sdl-devel --verbose
    SDL-devel.x86_64 : Files needed to develop Simple DirectMedia Layer   applications
    Repo        : base
    

    With Fedora 26, SDL2 is available in repo fedora

    uname -r
    4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64
    dnf --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="fedora" search sdl2-devel --verbose
    
    SDL2-devel.x86_64 : Files needed to develop Simple DirectMedia Layer applications
    Repo        : fedora