<posted & mailed> david walcroft wrote: >> I was trying to "yum update" on a machine which had not been updated >> for some time, and I came across the following puzzling problem. ... >> In any case, I ran "yum --enablerepo=development install db4" >> and this duly installed db4-4.3.so and related files. >> >> However, when I ran "yum update" again, >> I still got the same dependency errors: >> ======================================= >> --> Running transaction check >> --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: kdesdk >> --> Processing Dependency: db4 >= 4.3 for package: openoffice.org ... >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution >> Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg kdesdk >> Error: missing dep: db4 >= 4.3 for pkg openoffice.org ... >> ======================================= >> >> What baffles me is that these library files _are_present, >> having been supplied by the db4 rpm: > I have seen this before,trying to recall the cure which I think > is in the first line of you post,yum upgrading a system not upgraded for > a while but using the latest rpm's to do the upgrade.Try putting the > latest yum-2.2.0-0.fc3 in by hand resolve any dependencies and try the > upgrade again. > You did not mention your FC* or kernel,things could be very different > depending upon this Thanks for your response. I'm running FC-3 with kernel-2.6.11 (I have tried the latest Fedora update kernel, but that does not affect matters.) The only explanation I can see for this problem is that yum is not just looking for this particular library, it is looking for a specific rpm containing the library. But if that is so, why does yum not tell me? I find yum generally an extremely useful application; but when it does not work it is very difficult to correct. Assuming I am right in my conclusion above, I would like yum to give me much more information than just "Missing dep". -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
