Bug 1205819 - RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.
Summary: RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghc
Version: el6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-25 16:42 UTC by vmjersey
Modified: 2015-04-06 21:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-04-06 21:28:50 UTC
Type: Bug
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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.  
3.

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.
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