Thanks for the help, here's the progress:
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 19:44, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> You should not have two versions of Mozilla. Erase the old one
> (rpm -e mozilla-1.4.1-18).
>
I tried this and received the following result:
root@Linux64 law]# rpm -e mozilla-1.4.1-18
error: Failed dependencies:
libgkgfx.so is needed by (installed)
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
libxpcom.so is needed by (installed)
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
libxpcom_compat.so is needed by (installed)
mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
> I guess there are more mozilla packages installed, see
>
> rpm -qa 'mozilla*'
Lots of mozilla packages show up:
[root@Linux64 law]# rpm -qa mozilla*
mozilla-chat-1.6-8
mozilla-js-debugger-1.6-8
mozilla-devel-1.6-8
mozilla-nss-devel-1.6-8
mozilla-nspr-1.4.1-18
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
mozilla-nss-1.6-8
mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-8
mozilla-mail-1.6-8
mozilla-nss-1.4.1-18
mozilla-nspr-1.6-8
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.6-8
mozilla-1.6-8
mozilla-1.4.1-18
mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
[root@Linux64 law]#
> instead of querying specific package names.
>
> > [root@Linux64 law]# rpm -q mozilla-nspr-devel
> > mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-8
> > [root@Linux64 law]# rpm -q mozilla-nss-devel
> > mozilla-nss-devel-1.6-8
> > [root@Linux64 law]#
> >
> > So those packages are there.. but yum doesnt seem them.
>
> It does, but there are newer versions in Released Updates which
> cannot be installed due to:
>
> > My
> > /etc/yum.conf file is:
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > pkgpolicy=newest
> > distroverpkg=redhat-release
> > tolerant=1
> > exactarch=1
> > retries=20
> > exclude=mozilla-devel
>
> Why do you exclude 'mozilla-devel'?
I tried excluding mozilla-devel in hopes to get "yum update" to run
since that seems to be the package yum is bombing out on.
Law
