On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > But your query is wrong anyway. The dependencies you see are on > > "libssl.so.5", which is not a file, but a "shared object name": > > > > $ rpm --query --whatprovides libssl.so.5 > > openssl-0.9.7f-7 > > You are quite right, thanks. > > [tim@alfred ~]$ rpm --query --whatprovides libssl.so.5 > openssl-0.9.7f-7 > [tim@alfred ~]$ rpm --query --whatprovides libcrypto.so.5 > openssl-0.9.7f-7 > [I had assumed that -f was the same as --whatprovides .] > > Unfortunately this doesn't seem to help with my problem, > which is why I get a large number of dependency errors, > all referring to libssl.so.5 or libcrypto.so.5 , > although both these appear to be in place, > provided by the package openssl-0.9.7f-7.i686.rpm . > > I'm not clear why there is a reference to openssl.i386 0:0.9.7a-42.1 > in the exerpt below; > this appears to be an old package which is no longer present. > (I should say that I upgraded from FC-3 to FC-4, > and have in fact upgraded on this machine all the way from Redhat-8.2 , > as none of the distribution kernels have run on this SCSI-only box.) > > If anyone has any advice or suggestion > how I can get round the dependency errors > (some of which I give below) > I shall be very grateful. > > ================================================= > [root@alfred tim]# yum update > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > pre-extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 An FC4 system should be using an "extras" repository (specified in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo), so it seems that your yum configuration is at least partly still configured for FC3. What are your repo definitions? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
