# Installation problem on fedora 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539 "2008-09-02T23:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/1 "2008-09-02T23:14:24Z")
hi, am newbie to ruby on rails in linux,am trying to setup ruby on rails environment on fedora 8. i started by executing this command yum -y install ruby ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-libs ruby-rdoc ruby-ri rubygems this is the result that i got Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package ruby available. No package ruby-devel available. No package ruby-irb available. No package ruby-libs available. No package ruby-rdoc available. No package ruby-ri available. No package rubygems available. Nothing to do i do not know why am getting this, what do i do to get rid of this so that i can finish these installation, your help please ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/2 "2008-09-02T23:23:26Z")
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:14 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > Setting up Install Process > i do not know why am getting this, what do i do to get rid of this so > that i can finish these installation, your help please * * * is it possible that they are already installed? what is output of commands (as root)… rpm -qa|grep ruby yum repolist Craig ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/3 "2008-09-02T23:46:47Z")
Craig W. wrote: > what is output of commands (as root)… > > rpm -qa|grep ruby > yum repolist rpm -qa|grep ruby does not give anything just another prompt i.e [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep ruby [root@localhost ~]# and yum repolist gives the folowing [root@localhost ~]# yum repolist repo id repo name status InstallMedia Fedora 8 enabled what next please? thanks craig ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/4 "2008-09-02T23:55:44Z")
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:46 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > what next please? * * * that doesn’t look right at all. what is output of ‘rpm -qa|grep fedora-release’ (I’m looking to see if you have fedora-release and fedora-release-notes packages installed) My /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo looks like this - and even though I am using Fedora 9, Fedora 8 should be much the same. [fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [fedora-debuginfo] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [fedora-source] name=Fedora $releasever - Source failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY and likewise…/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo should look like this [updates] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora [updates-debuginfo] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora [updates-source] name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora Craig ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/5 "2008-09-03T00:30:51Z")
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:19 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > > > > ‘rpm -qa|grep fedora-release’ gives the following > > fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3 > fedora-release-8-3 > > any suggestion please? * * * the output of yum repolist doesn’t show that fedora or fedora-updates repos are enabled. That’s why I output the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo in my previous e-mail so you could compare yours to mine. You might try as root (after comparing the files)… yum clean all yum update # then finally yum install ruby ruby-libs ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-doc rubygems Craig ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/6 "2008-09-03T00:19:45Z")
Craig W. wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:46 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > > > what next please? > > * * * > > that doesn’t look right at all. > > what is output of ‘rpm -qa|grep fedora-release’ > (I’m looking to see if you have fedora-release and fedora-release-notes > packages installed) ‘rpm -qa|grep fedora-release’ gives the following fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3 fedora-release-8-3 any suggestion please? adolf ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/7 "2008-09-03T00:52:46Z")
Craig W. wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:19 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > > > > > > > > ‘rpm -qa|grep fedora-release’ gives the following > > > > fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3 > > fedora-release-8-3 > > > > any suggestion please? > > * * * > > the output of yum repolist doesn’t show that fedora or fedora-updates > repos are enabled. That’s why I output the contents > of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo > in my previous e-mail so you could compare yours to mine. this is my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo, [fedora] name=Fedora 8 - i386 failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 enabled = 0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [fedora-debuginfo] name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Debug failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/debug/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-8&arch=i386 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [fedora-source] name=Fedora 8 - Source failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY and my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo looks like this [updates] name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=i386 enabled = 0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora [updates-debuginfo] name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates - Debug failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/debug/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-f8&arch=i386 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora [updates-source] name=Fedora 8 - Updates Source failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f8&arch=i386 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedor do i need to change anything before i run the command that you mentioned last time? ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/8 "2008-09-03T01:01:52Z")
See below…you need to edit those files to ‘enable’ fedora and updates Craig On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:52 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > > > any suggestion please? > > > [fedora] > > > name=Fedora 8 - i386 > > > failovermethod=priority > > > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ > > > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 > > > enabled = 0 * * * ## change to enabled = 1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > enabled = 0 * * * ## change to enabled = 1 ---
**Author:** ![adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@adolf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adolf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-on-fedora-8/147539/9 "2008-09-03T01:11:14Z")
Craig W. wrote: > See below…you need to edit those files to ‘enable’ fedora and updates > > Craig > > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:52 +0200, Adolf C. wrote: > > > > > any suggestion please? > > > > [fedora] > > > > name=Fedora 8 - i386 > > > > failovermethod=priority > > > > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ > > > > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 > > > > enabled = 0 > > * * * > > ## change to enabled = 1 > > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > > enabled = 0 > > * * * > > change to enabled = 1 thanks craig for your valuable contribution. all the best adolf > * * *