robert alan bowman wrote:
Hi,
(NOTE : I hope this does not come twice !! mailcity cunningly hid my email
address!!!)
I am a complete fedora newbie. Last night I installed FC5 on a PC and the first
thing I did was to run the "yum -y upgrade" command (as per the Myth(tv)ology
instructions I was following) to get my machine uptodate.
Sadly, it went a little strange after doing the 520Mb download. Once it got to
applying the downloads, I left the machine over night. Well, come this morning
(eight hours later), it still had not finished and appeared to be doing nothing.
The entry with the #'s appearing next to it was "coreutils" (something like
125/525). Well, I opened a new session in the same Konsole window just to log in
as root and nose around (not that I knew what I was looking for). When I decide!
d that was a bad idea, I accidently closed the session tab which was applying
the update!!! Arrrrgh!!!! Opps!!.
Now, when I try "yum -y upgrade" again, I get about six dependency error
messages. The first being related to openssh (I can't recall the others, I am
not at the machine now).
I tried using yum to install openssh and got the following :
<snip>
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core
[1/3]
updates ! ; &nb sp;
[2/3]
extras
[3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package openssh.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
openssh-clients
--> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 f! or package: openssh-server
--> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
openssh-askpass
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package openssh-clients.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
---> Package openssh-server.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
openssh-askpass
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 is needed by package
openssh-askpass
</snip>
What can I do please? Have I screwed things up completely? How, please, do I go
about resolving the dependency issue? Any tutorial links to help resolve this
problem?
Thanks for helping this complete novice.
Hopefully you still have the downloaded packages in
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages
Give this a try:
# cd /var/cache/yum/updates/packages
# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs openssh*
See if things look a bit better after doing that.
Paul.
