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I've hit upon a strange issue with a new installation of CentOS 6.5 while trying to install MariaDB.

I've included the following information and created a MariaDB.repo file inside the /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder:

# MariaDB 5.5 CentOS repository list - created 2013-08-11 14:22 UTC
# http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

Then, I enter the command yum repolist all, and it shows that this repo is enabled.

However, I then enter this command: yum -y install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

This outputs the following:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.simwood.com
 * extras: www.mirrorservice.org
 * updates: mirror.synergyworks.co.uk
Setting up Install Process
No package MariaDB-server available.
No package MariaDB-client available.
Error: Nothing to do

I've rebooted the server and ran the command again and this error message still persists. What's going on?

mickburkejnr
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1 Answers1

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Issue the command: yum clean all

This happens because yum didn't get the new packages list from the repo server. Usually it's preceded by a message

Yum Error: "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have"

Cleaning yum cache will force it to redownload the packages list, and consequently, recognize the packages.

If this doesn't help, you could also try cleaning some cache in rm /var/cache/yum/.....

Alex
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