query abt yum

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez manuel at todo-linux.com
Thu May 3 14:11:17 UTC 2007


On Thursday 03 May 2007 16:07:46 sylvan dacounha wrote:
> Dear All
>
> i want to install software using Yum like clamav
>
>   but when i try to run clamav
>
>
>   ex yum install clamav
>
>   its gives me the following message
>
>   Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: clamav
> Nothing to do
>
>
>   how do i download software from the net using yum
>
>
>   appreciate your help
>
>   thnks and reagrds
>
>   simon
>

I suggest you to first search for the package with:
yum search clamav

May be the package is not called exactly clamav.

Hope this helps.
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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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