pppd missing?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon May 29 11:13:06 UTC 2006
Robert Spanton wrote:
>> FC5?
> yes
>
>> ppp-2.4.3-6.2.1 is there....
> Well, that's what I originally thought! But after removing the ppp
> package (for various reasons) I now want to reinstall it.
>
> I ran yum install ppp. It came back telling me "No Match for argument:
> ppp".
Maybe you need to do a yum clean?
> I've browsed the repository manually, and can't find any packages
> called "ppp" - I've looked in core, updates and extras.
Just looked in my local mirror here in Taiwan...
ncftp .../5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS > ls ppp*
ppp-2.4.3-6.2.1.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
>
> Then I ran "yum provides pppd". This returned a few packages, but none
> of them contained the pppd binary. They were mostly man pages etc.
I did "yum provides /usr/sbin/pppd"
It returns....
ppp.i386 2.4.3-6.2.1 installed
Matched from:
/usr/sbin/pppd
>
> So, everything I've looked at seems to indicate that the ppp package
> has disappeared somehow, or that it was never in the repositories and
> only existed on the install cd.
--
Phone call for chucky-pooh.
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