On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:01:49 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > >> >> I am trying to do an update using YUM and I get the following > >> >> message.. > >> >> > >> >> gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2.i 100% |=========================| 76 kB > >> >> 00:00 > >> >> ---> Package gnome-panel.i386 0:2.10.1-10.2 set to be updated > >> >> --> Running transaction check > >> >> --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 for package: galeon > >> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution > >> >> Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 is needed by package > >> >> galeon > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> What do I have to do to get by this? > >> >> > >> >> Do I have to update mozilla? I have asked YUM to do this but no luck. > >> >> If I have to go out there somewhere to get mozilla, where is the best > >> >> place to get it? > >> >> > >> >> Bottom line - what do I have to do to get passed this "Error".. > >> > > >> > You have to either: > >> > * wait for an updated galeon package to appear in Fedora Extras that is > >> > compatible with the updated mozilla packages (probably a day or two), > >> > or * remove galeon from your system > >> > >> Wouldn't it be easier to exclude galeon from the update > >> by adding the line "exclude=galeon*" to /etc/yum.conf ? > > > > No, that wouldn't work. He already has galeon installed, and updating > > mozilla would break the dependencies of that already-installed package, > > so yum won't do it. The exclude would only stop yum updating galeon > > itself, and the problem is that there's no update of galeon available. > > I'm sure you know better than me. > But my reading of the error message above > is that yum was unable to update galeon > because it could not find the required version of mozilla. Message says that yum was going to update mozilla, and the installed galeon needs a different version than was going to be installed. Hence it refuses to update mozilla, since it would break galeon's dependencies.
