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how do i install proftpd on amazon linux, yum install proftpd is not working, its showing "proftpd pakage not found"

Posted September 14, 2016 5k views
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[root@ip-172-31-37-101 ec2-user]# yum install proftpd
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
amzn-main/latest | 2.1 kB 00:00
amzn-updates/latest | 2.3 kB 00:00
No package proftpd available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@ip-172-31-37-101 ec2-user]#

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kamaln7 September 14, 2016

Hi!

ProFTPd is not available in the default Amazon Linux repos. However, your system should have the EPEL repo installed (although disabled) by default. You can temporarily enable the EPEL repo by passing --enablerepo=epel to yum:

yum --enablerepo=epel install proftpd

If you want to enable the EPEL repo permanently, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and replace enabled=0 with enabled=1 under the [epel] section. Though, you should know that due to the way the repos are prioritized by default, if a package is available in both repos, the Amazon Linux AMI version will be installed.

Refer to the Amazon Linux AMI FAQ for more info.

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  • anky September 15, 2016

    @kamaln7 you are awesome , how on earth did i not find this anywhere, thank you soo much, made life so much easier, all i need to do now is configure proftpd, any links which can help me with that?

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