SOLVED Re: Libreoffice not found by yum search F17

[Ed Greshko]

Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:22:48 +0100, FM (Frank) wrote:
>
>> On 28/03/12 09:07, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> > fedora & updates-testing enabled.
>> 
>> Own goal:
>> cat /etc/yum.conf
>> exclude= *i386* *i486* *i586 *i686*
>> 
>> it's a 32 bit box :(
>
>You're talking in riddles. First thing I don't understand is, if you
>find
>that a Yum search fails to find packages, why you don't try to Yum list
>the packages whose names you know. Instead of a little exercise and an
>attempt at tracking down what's wrong, you only point at packages on a
>download mirror server. Secondly, that exclude= line in your config
>file is wrong obviously, but what are you trying to point out at all? Not
>just with the last sentence and the smiley. Also the "Own goal", what are
>you trying to express?


It was pretty obvious to me....  His box is i686 but he excluded that in his yum.conf....in error.  So, of course the yum search didn't find it.

"Own Goal" .... similar to PEBKAC.  Or, he shot himself in the foot.  Self inflected injury.

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