On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:40 -0600, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 16:41, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:44:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:26:03PM -0600, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > > I cant seem to run a yum update on my FC3 box. > > > > I've tried everything I can think of (even tried: > > > > yum --exclude=rhn-applet update) > > > > I keep getting : > > > > "Error: Missing Dependency: > > > > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so is needed by package > > > > rhn-apple" > > > > > > Try "yum remove rhn-applet" first. > > > > Why? It looks a lot like one of the packages to be upgraded will > > install an incompatible version of rpm-python. That should not happen > > with FC3 and official updates. > > > > -- > > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1432_FC5 > > loadavg: 1.24 1.33 1.48 > > Based on the above posts I ran : > yum remove rhn-applet > > then I ran: > yum update > > and finally I ran: > yum install rhn-applet > > Unfortunately I think that this comment was a good point but I had already > run the commands: > > Why? It looks a lot like one of the packages to be upgraded will > > install an incompatible version of rpm-python. That should not happen > > with FC3 and official updates. > > So, now when I try and run yum update I get this: > > root@Issac # yum update > The yum libraries do not seem to be available on your system for this version > of python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:11:53) > [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] > Please make sure the package you used to install yum was built for your > install of python. > > Any chance I can fix it, or is it time to move to FC4 ? > What repos do you have enabled? The official base and updates repos have never broken any dependencies for me. However, some of the packages at livna and/or atrpms have done so if I inadvertently leave them enabled at all times. That has to do with the package naming that is/can be different among the different repos and yum may pick one that breaks something else.
