Installing gcc on rhel 6.1

Question

GCC doesn't seem to be installed on my RHEL 6.1 machine. Also, when I did:

sudo yum install gcc 

It barfed:

Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Install Process
No package gcc available.
Error: Nothing to do

The same command works fine on rhel 5.5. What could be the problem?

sudo yum search gcc

Returns:

libgcc.x86_64 : GCC version 4.4 shared support library
libgomp.x86_64 : GCC OpenMP v3.0 shared support library

sudo yum grouplist

Returns:

Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Group Process
Error: No group data available for configured repositories


sudo yum repolist

Returns:

Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
repolist: 0





ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/

Returns:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  67 Nov 28 06:28 redhat.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 529 Apr 27  2011 rhel-source.repo

Solution

yum install gcc should work, as you suspect. Maybe you need to subscribe to a specific channel in RHN but this gcc advisory seems to indicate that gcc should be available on all of these channels, and I assume you're already subscribe to at least one of them:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)

Comments

[Rilindo]

Can you paste what you have under /etc/yum.repos.d?

[Chander Shivdasani]

I edited the question with the output of what you asked

[Gilles 'SO- stop being evil']

@ChanderShivdasani And what's in those .repo files?

[Chander Shivdasani]

How do i check whether i'm subscribed to any of these?

[Rilindo]

Let me ask this: have your brought a RH subscription?

[Chander Shivdasani]

yup. I work in a company and i'm trying to do this in one of their servers

[wormintrude]

@Chader Shivdasani: Can you see the system in your RHN ? For a registered system, "yum repolist all" ran as root should yield, amongst other lines: rhel-x86_64-server-6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64) 6,909 You can also run, as root, "rhn-register", if the system is already registered, then a "This systems appears to be registered with RHN" will show up. If the system isn't registered, you can then do it via rhn_register or rhnreg_ks.