Why is yum not installing my softwares on RHEL 6 ?

Question

I am trying to install avr-gcc using yum on a RHEL 6.

But I get this error.

[root@xilinx etc]# yum install avr-gcc
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
There was an error parsing the RHN proxy settings.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package avr-gcc available.
Error: Nothing to do

I am getting this error for even yum update

What is the altertnative then ?

Solution

So does that package even exist? Try typing

yum search avr-gcc

You also should take a look in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory and look at your .repo setup.

In its simplest form it should look like this:

[base]
name=base repo
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basesearch
gpgcheck=0

Comments

[jamespo]

what does "grep -i prox /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.repos.d/*" output?

[slm]

Read the OP's Q. He' having issues with yum on RHEL. This adds nothing new to this thread and should be deleted.

[gpuguy]

In this directory I have many .repo files, which one should I modify ?

[Jay]

Post the listing of that directory...