I'm trying to install gedit on an Amazon EC2 instance running Redhat 4.4.4-13. I thought it would be as easy as
sudo yum install gedit
But that just gives me:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
amzn-main | 2.1 kB 00:00
amzn-updates | 2.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package gedit available.
Error: Nothing to do
Trying "yum repolist all" gives me this:
repo id repo name status
amzn-main amzn-main-Base enabled: 2,463
amzn-main-debuginfo amzn-main-debuginfo disabled
amzn-main-nosrc amzn-main-nosrc disabled
amzn-updates amzn-updates-Base enabled: 86
amzn-updates-debuginfo amzn-updates-debuginfo disabled
amzn-updates-nosrc amzn-updates-nosrc disabled
repolist: 2,549
So it looks as though this machine doesn't have any of the usual repositories, including those with gedit. How do I install those? I can't find any documentation on this.
Best Answer
You don't appear to be running Red Hat, but Amazon Linux. Since this is designed to be a server instance, they may have chosen not to provide desktop tools such as
gedit
.