[SOLVED] Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by scottro » 2016/03/27 17:45:08

That is a bit odd.
Try yum clean all then try yum search ssmtp and let us know your results.
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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by rtcary » 2016/03/27 19:41:23

This is what I got:

[root@centos5 todd]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
[root@centos5 todd]# yum install ssmtp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: centos.sonn.com
* extras: mirror.spro.net
* updates: mirrors.tummy.com
base | 1.1 kB 00:00
base/primary | 996 kB 00:00
base 2791/2791
cr | 1.9 kB 00:00
cr/primary_db | 1.1 kB 00:00
extras | 2.1 kB 00:00
extras/primary_db | 164 kB 00:00
http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i ... repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: google. Please verify its path and try again

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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by scottro » 2016/03/27 20:58:33

Look through the files in your /etc/yum.repos.d and see which one has something called google in it and disable it. It will say something like [gooogle] in brackets like that.

DIsable that one by changing the enabled value from 1 to 0 and try again.
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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by rtcary » 2016/03/27 23:33:34

I think I have a lot of "old stuff". Can it be updated?

[root@centos5 yum.repos.d]# ls -l
total 120
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1926 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 509 Sep 25 2011 CentOS-CR.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 645 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-fasttrack.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1330 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-Sources.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8315 Sep 19 2014 CentOS-Vault.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Mar 28 2011 epel.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Mar 28 2011 epel.repo~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1054 Aug 11 2010 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Mar 27 16:26 google-chrome.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Mar 27 16:26 google-chrome.repo~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162 Mar 27 16:25 google.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162 Mar 27 16:25 google.repo~
[root@centos5 yum.repos.d]# yum install ssmtp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.sonn.com
* extras: mirror.spro.net
* updates: mirrors.tummy.com
updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 615 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package ssmtp available.
Nothing to do

*****
[root@centos5 yum.repos.d]# cat CentOS-fasttrack.repo
[fasttrack]
name=CentOS-5 - fasttrack
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... =fasttrack
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Todd
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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by scottro » 2016/03/28 01:27:22

I would get rid of all of them except for base and epel. Most of those are no longer maintained. You definitely don't need the media one. I don't know about the google ones. I know that Google doesn't make rpms for RHEL5, but the Richard Lloyd stuff may still work for that, honestly, I don't know.
You don't need debug, and it's probably disabled anyway. I don't know if fasttrack and CR are still maintained for CentOS-5, but while trying to resolve this, you don't need them.


At least disable them for now. If it still can't find ssmtp, then download the rpm and try with yum localinstall <path_to_rpm>

If that doesn't work, then I really don't know. It's in the EPEL repos for RHEL-5, I'm not sure why it's not seeing it.
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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by rtcary » 2016/03/28 01:37:18

In case I need it, what is the correct URL for the x386 version of the repository?

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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by rtcary » 2016/03/28 01:55:45

Success!! Here is what I did

In CentOS-Base.repo

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... asearch&re
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releas ... $basearch/

I reversed the mirrorlist and baseurl -- now the baseurl is active.

Since my knowledge of the internals of yum are nil, I have a question: using the baseurl and it was successful, does yum "remember" -- make note of the successful path some place so I put those url's back?

I did the same to the fasttrack file too, but it did not execute.

And thank you and all the others for your patience.

Todd

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Re: Cannot find ssmtp for Centos 5

Post by scottro » 2016/03/28 11:38:41

I don't know if fasttrack is still maintained for CentOS-5, I doubt it.

If you leave your yum file as it is, that should be alright. Glad you got it working, I'll mark this solved for posterity.
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