Bug 1205819

Summary: RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: vmjersey
Component: ghcAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description vmjersey 2015-03-25 16:42:10 UTC
Description of problem:
I type "yum install ghc" and I get the following error:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ghc-base-devel-4.3.1.0-46.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libffi-devel

I type yum install libffi-devel, and I get the answer:

No package libffi-devel available.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.0.4

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  yum install ghc
2.  
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Actual results:   Dependencies not found.  Package would not install


Expected results:  I expected the packages to find the dependencies and install.


Additional info:

I searched manually through your repositories and indeed verified that libffi-devel is not there.

Comment 1 Anssi Johansson 2015-03-25 17:10:29 UTC
Have you read the "NOTE for RHN users" on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F ?

Comment 2 vmjersey 2015-03-25 18:53:34 UTC
(In reply to Anssi Johansson from comment #1)
> Have you read the "NOTE for RHN users" on
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F ?

You are correct.  Once I ran 
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-workstation-optional-rpms

The package installed just fine.  Thanks for your help.