Hi ,

I tried to use yum to install package "pkg-config" but fail , I am wonder the package "pkg-config" is common that should be available to install ( except this package , I also found other package is not available to install ) , could advise why I can not find it by yum ? except download it from http web page ( eg. rpmfind ) how to install it ? do I need to re-config the yum setting ? thanks



yum install pkg-config
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin, security
Setting up Install Process
No package pkg-config available.
Nothing to do

Try

Yum */provides pkg-config

If there is a package containing the command, that should how the correct package.

thanks reply ,

I tried yum */provides pkg-config , but it seems not have this parameter , could advise if this command is correct ? thanks

Try

thx reply ,

it tried many sites but still can not installed , the error is as below.


HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/04beb06960588ca2774ec666e566ce1344122443-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try

The package is named pkgconfig. Try yum install pkgconfig.

The above error message indicates that something is wrong with your repository configuration, so that yum install is unlikely to work either.
What Linux distro and version are you using?

the machine is connected to the internet?

or check out this link:
http://www.kodkast.com/linux-package...?pkg=pkgconfig

thanks it works

Another question , if it asks to install prerequisites when yum package , how to automatically install prerequisites ? thanks

Damn do i feel stupid now for putting the */ in the wrong spot!!!

yum does install prerequisites automatically if they are available in one of the configured repos. If it doesn't, it's because it can't find the prerequisites.

In such a case you have to figure out where the required package is and install it manually, or add the repository that has it to your configuration.

almost everything is going to be missing if you only install package config by it's self
"yum " so guessing this is ???????
RHEL 6.5
RHEL 5.10
CentOS 6.5
CentOS 5.10
SL 6.4
SL 5.10
or
Fedora 18
fedora 19
fedora 20 -testing

or did you install yum on suse and bypass zypper ?

pkgconfig is part of the development group as part of autotools

the best way to install it is to install EVERYTHING it is going to NEED also
for a list of installable software groups
see:

thanks reply , if it can't find the prerequisites , is it because the server point to wrong web site ? do I need to re-config the yum setting ? thanks

There are more reasons than I can imagine. One needs to check error messages in such a case.

see :
that will install everything needed by gcc including "auto tools"
and "pkgconfig" is part of auto tools .