On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:32 -0500, vodhner@cox.net wrote: > Hi, Craig. > > yum install php-mysql > > > > what is wrong with that? > > Excellent question, and the point of my request. > Please re-read the beginning of my message . . . > > It returned "no match". Why? Presumably because > there is some massive gap in my understanding of > repositories and how to set them up. ----- keep this on list You went on and on and I simply am lost. php-mysql is packaged as part of CentOS base repository and thus if 'yum install php-mysql' doesn't work...you don't have a working setup. See below for the yum repos/configurations Also note...there are some very nice commands for yum that will probably help you... yum search mysql yum search postgres yum grouplist yum clean all PHP 5 is available packaged in centosplus (if you enable it, you can get it - though I would probably recommend staying with 'upstream' at this point). anyway... Here is the contents - all you need to have a properly functioning yum and be able to pull in a ton of packages. ************************* # cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # exclude=kernel* # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d ************************* # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #packages in testing [testing] name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 ************************* # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss