Centos – “bash: setup:command not found” error on CentOS

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I'm getting the folling error message when I try to use the 'setup' application on CentOS 5.5 to configure the Apache webserver.

bash: setup: command not found

However, when I tried to install it with:

yum install setup

I got the response that it was already installed and no work need to be done.

I'm logged in as root.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Many thanks

Best Answer

In case anyone else stumbles across this question, I thought I'd provide a bit of an explanation here even though it sounds like the OP is all set:

When you install a package using yum, as in:

yum install setup

You're installing a package called setup. This does not necessarily mean you're installing an application of the same name. In this case, setup is simply a low-level package that installs some necessary system configuration files. You can see the complete contents of the package like this:

rpm -ql setup

And you can get more information about the package like this:

rpm -qi setup

This includes a description of the package:

The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.

If you want to install a particular application, you can try searching for it with yum search, or if you know a particular binary name you can usually provide that as an argument to yum install. For example:

yum install /bin/zsh

You can work backwards and figure out what packages owns a particular file like this:

rpm -qf /path/to/some/file

For example:

# rpm -qf /usr/bin/ssh
openssh-clients-5.6p1-31.fc15.1.x86_64
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