Problems installing memcached

memcached

I am trying to follow the instructions here to install Memcached on a CentOS machine, and I'm not having much luck.

The instructions say to first enable rpmforge repository as follows:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

This appears to go OK.

Then they say to install memcached by using yum:

yum -y install memcached

This gets the download speeds of various mirror sites, then says "Setting up Install Process", and then finally "No package memcached available".

What am I doing wrong here?

EDIT: These are the contents of my /etc/yum.conf file:

root@vps-1077739-6497 [/etc/sysconfig]# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
exclude=apache* bind-chroot courier* dovecot* exim* filesystem httpd* mod_ssl* mysql* nsd* perl* php* proftpd* pure-ftpd* ruby* spamassassin* squirrelmail*
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
bugtracker_url=http://bugs.centos.org/set_project.php?project_id=16&ref=http://bugs.centos.org/bug_report_page.php?category=yum

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h

installonly_limit = 5

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Best Answer

Memcached is in the rpmforge-extras repository and it is not enabled by default.

Installing:
 memcached                              i386                         1.4.7-1.el5.rfx                         rpmforge-extras                        79 k

You need to edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo and put "enabled = 1" instead of "enabled = 0" in the [rpmforge-extras] section and then re-run your command yum -y install memcached.

Your /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo should looks like this:

### Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for RHEL 5 - dag
### URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/rpmforge
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

[rpmforge-extras]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - extras
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/extras
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge-extras
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge-extras
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

[rpmforge-testing]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - testing
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/testing
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge-testing
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge-testing
enabled = 0
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1
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