Amazon Linux AMI EC2- Missing packages

Question

Following this tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html

I've been stuck trying to install a LAMP web server on putty because the packages appear to be missing!

I'll take you through the steps:-

1) sudo yum update -y
3) sudo yum install -y httpd24 php70 mysql56-server php70-mysqlnd

Then I get the following:-

Loaded plugins: langpacks, priorities, update-motd
No package httpd24 available.
No package php70 available.
No package mysql56-server available.
No package php70-mysqlnd available.
Error: Nothing to do

4) sudo yum repolist all

Loaded plugins: langpacks, priorities, update-motd
repo id                             repo name                     status
!amzn2-core/2017.12/x86_64          Amazon Linux 2 core repositor enabled: 7,711
amzn2-core-debuginfo/2017.12/x86_64 Amazon Linux 2 core repositor disabled
amzn2-core-source/2017.12           Amazon Linux 2 core repositor disabled
repolist: 7,711

What am I missing??

Thanks!

Answer 1

You're using an Amazon Linux 2 instance (as shown by the amzn2-core references in the yum repolist all output), but trying to use the tutorial for Amazon Linux 1. Try this tutorial instead.