Guillermo Garron wrote: >> I just installed FC-5 on a new disk, >> and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported, >> kdebase required htdig . >> >> On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems >> which I have kept up-to-date. >> >> It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything >> by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc, >> but I am puzzled why this problem arises, >> and interested to know if there is a simple way >> of determining exactly what is looking for what? >> (It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.) > I think i have seen this before, > > some dependencies are not resolved by YUM it just inform you do not > have it, but do not fetch it. > > What i did in that situations is to *manually* install the required > package. > > $ yum install htdig > and then > $ yum update Thanks for your response. I tried your recipe, but unfortunately it did not work. I found in the end that somewhere along the line I lost /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo , goodness knows where or how. I looked this up on a working FC-5 system, and found it came with fedora-release-5.5 . When I downloaded this and ran "rpm --force -ivh fedora-release-5.5" all was well. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
