yum is not working
 

Dear All,

I m not able to download any tool from when i say yum install its giving me this error

$ yum install gcc
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
Nothing to do


Can anyone help me on this

Can you post the the output of
You'll need to be root.

Hi,

First of all, when you post a problem, please mention what distro and version you are using. Do you have your repos setup correctly? Post output of:
Is this the first time you use yum in this installation? If so, did you run:
before trying to install anything?

Kind regards,

Eric

Dear chrism,

$ cat /etc/*release*
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Carthage)
cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

$ uname -a
Linux ip-10-12-195-154 2.6.18-164.0.0.0.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 00:34:43 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ls cd /etc/yum.repos.d
ls: cd: No such file or directory
/etc/yum.repos.d:


$ cat cd /etc/yum.repos.d/*
cat: cd: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/yum.repos.d/*: No such file or directory

without knowing more info ( see above)

that massage says that gcc is installed
or
there is no repo enabled that has it

--- edit ---
posted to quick
only supported if you have a paid for license

if it is not registered then you can not install anything
Also 5.4 is very old
the current in the old 5 series is 5.8 ( 2 years newer )


well you have no software repositories installed
not even RHN or the updates
nor the base 5.4 repo file

basically
you can not install anything on this

a few options
1)
5.4 is OLD but red hat will ( for an extra fee ) provide extra support for 5.4 to KEEP it at 5.4
not recommend ! unless you MUST

2)
if you NEED the older 5 series
buy a license form red hat and register the 5.8 install
not recommend ! unless you MUST

3)
Buy RHEL 6.3 the current , and register it ( required )

if you are not going to buy the required license then install one of the FREE rebuilds

for the older 5 series ( hard to support -- it is starting to get a bit old )
CentOS 5.8
scientificLinux 5.8

For the current 6 series
CentOS 6.3
scientificLinux 6.3

Dear EricTRA,

Yes this is the first time i m doing it

here is

$ yum repolist enabled
Loaded plugins: security
repolist: 0


$ sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

Hi,

There you go, apparently you don't have any repositories enabled. As requested also by chrism01, run the following and post the output please:
to see what distro and version you're using, kernel, and if there are any repo definition files available or not.

Kind regards,

Eric

Dear EricTRA

i posted the output this above

Aarrgghh; apologies for typo/copy n paste; they should read
basically listing the repos files defined, then show contents of those files.

(Just noticed EricTRA copied my mistake ... we're only human ;) )

dear Chrism01,

i not able to read ls /etc/yum.repos.d file its says no such file or directory

Hi,

Sorry, I missed that one too. The, in my opinion, only correct and complete advice has been given in post #5 by John VV.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi Chris,

Thank God for small reminders that we're still human. Fr*$% copy/paste. Just shows that cutting corners, or at least trying to, is not always a good idea.

Kind regards,

Eric

Dear John VV,


I am using a amazon ec2 machine.

ask amazon about the red hat server cloud support
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
the red hat server pricing is
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html

Dear EricTRA,

yum.repos.d this folder is present but the version of the linux is not mentioned in this folder