[Yum] install problems with php

Demetri Mouratis dmourati at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 21:54:01 UTC 2006


On 10/30/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I ran yum -y update with no problems everything appeared to update.
> > However the yum -y install qmail command did not do anything.  It
> > returned:
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > Parsing package install arguments
> > No Match for argument: qmail
> > Nothing to do
>
> Correct. qmail is not provided by centos, as its license prevents
> binary distribution and <opinion> its author is a clinically
> insane</opinion>. This entire thread has nothing to do with yum, and
> should probably have been done in the centos ml, as yum appears to be
> working just fine.

Thanks, Jim, for catching my mistake.  It has been a long time since
I've used qmail and I was unaware it was not in the CentOS distro.  As
for your opinion on its author, I've certainly heard worse.  I happen
to like djbdns but use postfix for my MTA requirements.



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