Applications installation error
Hi guys.
I try to install any application from Software center, but every time the following message appears: "Sorry, this didn't work. Installation ... failed."
I run RHEL on Virtual machine, connection to Internet is on, installation via BASH shows "No package ... available"
Does anybody know what to do???
Responses
Yaroslav, you may need to provide more details regarding your query. What RHEL version? Does required package repositories are enabled?(check this using "yum repolist" command), what command are you using to get the application package installed? Does this application package is available in Red Hat channel or provided by third party?
The main reason why package installation says "no package" is because that there is no proper repositories configured. Check if your application provider have got links for download and in what format those are (package or tar files), accordingly you may need to download, build, install application.
Guru
9715 points
Hi Yaroslav,
Make sure that the RHEL system is properly registered and that your subscription is attached to the installed system. Then you can enable repositories and after updating the software sources by running sudo yum update you are able to install any software that is available in the enabled repositories.
Cheers :)
Christian
Guru
9715 points
Hi Yaroslav,
Software Center is not what you should use for package management, better use yum, so check with sudo yum list <package-name> what is available in the repositories and install the packages with sudo yum install <package-name>. Alternatively you can search in -> Red Hat Package Browser
Regards,
Christian
Guru
9715 points
Of course these packages are not available Yaroslav, you are running the Server edition my friend. :)
But you can add external repositories in which some of the software packages (e.g. vlc) are available.
Run sudo yum update afterwards, also I suggest to enable the extras and optional repositories.
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpmsudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpmsudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpmssudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
By the way, all that has got nothing to do with virtualization and - ubuntu is a (noob) user friendly workstation distro. Red Hat Enterprise Linux - especially the server edition - aims at (as the name says) enterprises and advanced users.
Regards,
Christian
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