[SOLVED] Yum cannot find the package I want to install

Issue

I am trying to a simple command sudo yum install SDL2. I know that this package exists as per the SDL website:

Red Hat-based systems (including Fedora) can simply do "sudo yum install SDL2" to get the library installed system-wide, or "sudo yum install SDL2-devel" to get headers and other build requirements ready for compiling your own SDL programs.

However, when I try to execute my command, I get the following:

Setting up Install Process
No package SDL2 available.
Error: Nothing to do

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga). How can I go about getting yum to locate this package?

Solution

ONLY SDL is available on redhat 5.3

uname -r
2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64

yum search sdl-devel --verbose
SDL-devel.x86_64 : Files needed to develop Simple DirectMedia Layer   applications
Repo        : base

With Fedora 26, SDL2 is available in repo fedora

uname -r
4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64
dnf --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="fedora" search sdl2-devel --verbose

SDL2-devel.x86_64 : Files needed to develop Simple DirectMedia Layer applications
Repo        : fedora

Answered By - Gang