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.
