PROBLEM:

Whenever we want to use command yum install <packagename>   get error:

No package available

For example,

[root@cpanel1 etc]# yum install autossh
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.t-2.net
 * extras: centos.t-2.net
 * updates: centos.t-2.net
No package autossh available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@cpanel1 etc]# 

How do we make it work?

SOLUTION 1:

These steps might help you,

1. yum clean all & yum clean metadata
2. Check the files in /etc/yum.repos.d and make sure that they don’t all have enabled = 0 for each repo (there may be more than one per file).
3. Finally you would be able to do yum update and search for desired packages.

SOLUTION 2:

• For CentOS/RHEL 7, autossh is no longer available in Repoforge repository. So you will need to build and compile it from the source, here is what you should do:
  bash code

  $ sudo yum install wget gcc make
  $ wget http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/autossh-1.4e.tgz
  $ tar -xf autossh-1.4e.tgz
  $ cd autossh-1.4e
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

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