Robin Laing wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 11/7/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/11/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After several days of yum problems (no livna), I switched to the
failovermethod=priority mirror method, and yum starts normally.
However, it bombs out with:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: dbus-qt = 0.33-3.1.fc4.kde is needed by
package dbus-devel
When can I get that? If I just download it as an rpm (I haven't
checked from where yet), will that screw anything up?
Thanks in advance.
Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_digital_camera.html
What I did was to rpm -e dbus-devel and then everything worked just
fine.
Apparently, dbus-devel was not needed by anythng on my system,
although it
must have been at one time, otherwise I would never have installed
it in the
first place.
Isn't there a way to see what depends on something before I -e it? I
just did a man rpm but didn't see an option for checking. How is that
done?
A simple way of doing this is just to run the "rpm -e" as a non-root
user. If there are dependency issues, rpm will tell you. If not, the
remove will fail because you're not root.
Paul.
What about the --test flag? Wouldn't that work as well?
Yes, and that works as root too.
You could also try:
# yum remove pkgname
That would show not only anything that depends on pkgname, but also any
dependencies of those dependencies etc. Just be sure not to respond "y"
when it asks whether to go ahead and remove all the packages...
Paul.
