I am running centos4 (sorry, I know this is the Fedora forum but I was hoping to get more answers here).

I am trying to install apache using YUM.

When I do yum list, httpd or apache is no where to be found.

Therefore, "yum install httpd" produces:

No Match for argument: httpd
Nothing to do

I look through the whole list and I don't see it anywhere. My repos are set to:
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep$
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/

I tried using both the baseurl and mirrorlist method. I am a noob at this.

Please help!!!

Place this file; http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos...ntOS-Base.repo in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory. Disable or undo your CentOS yum configuration then as root do;

yum clean all
yum update
yum install httpd

Depending on how old your CentOS installation is this might take some time. FYI, CentOS has it own forums and CentOS5 is out. Next time try the Red Hat forum here, it is well monitored and answers happen on a daily basis.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...splay.php?f=31

I did as you said, replaced the repo file with that one, and I still get:
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[root@buffalo yum.repos.d]# yum install httpd
Repository update is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository addons is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository extras is listed more than once in the configuration
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: httpd
Nothing to do
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The one thing you said that I am not completely sure how to do is "Disable or undo your CentOS yum configuration then as root do"

This is driving me crazy. Thanks for the help.

Well, I figured out the problem. There was a line in my yum.conf file that had:
exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* modutils* spamassassin* centos-yumconf sysstat

I guess that solves that mystery. I forgot to look in here. But why would a default install of centos exclude those packages?

The same happened with me, I'm not sure why that would be there as the default setting - I haven't known it before