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yum install texinfo on CentOS 6.6 (no package)


To resolve some dependency to one of my programs, I have to install texinfo on my centos 6.6 system

yum install texinfo

it resulted to

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

I don't know how to resolve this. So far, I've downloaded that binary rpm.

Can anyone point me to the right direction ?


Solution

  • texinfo is provided by the BASE repo.

    Available Packages
    Name        : texinfo
    Arch        : x86_64
    Version     : 4.13a
    Release     : 8.el6
    Size        : 668 k
    Repo        : base
    Summary     : Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files
    URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
    License     : GPLv3+
    Description : Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online
                : information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU
                : Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.
                : 
                : Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both
                : online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you
                : are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
    

    It sounds like you may not have it enabled or configured. Have a check in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Hopefully you have that file. Within the [base] and [updates] section check if you have the line enabled=0 If you do change the 0 to a 1 If you don't have the .repo file at all then create it with the path & file name above then add the following to it;

    [base]
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    
    #released updates 
    [updates]
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    
    #additional packages that may be useful
    [extras]
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    
    #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
    [centosplus]
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
    gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    
    #contrib - packages by Centos Users
    [contrib]
    name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
    gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    

    Finally do yum clean all and you should be good to go.