On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 23:33 -0500, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: > yum returns: > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting. > > I issue ps -A and there is a process "yum-updatesd" that I killed but yum > produces the same message. > > I issue ps -A |grep 11869 and I kill 11869. ---- Fedora / Red Hat systems uses the /sbin/service commands... /sbin/service yum-updatesd stop kinder, gentler way of stopping a daemon service ---- > Then I re-issue the yum > install php-mysql and after a few lines of "good" messages it says: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package php-mysql.i386 0:5.1.6-3.1.fc6 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: php = 5.1.6-3.1.fc6 for package: php-mysql > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Missing Dependency: php = 5.1.6-3.1.fc6 is needed by package php-mysql > > I check the version with rpm -qa |grep php and... > php-5.1.6-3.3.fc6 > > How can I instal the php-mysql? ---- I did check and the original php-mysql package was 5.1.6-3 and 5.1.6-3.1 and 5.1.6-3.3 should both be in fedora-updates repository for all php packages including php-mysql so you might want to execute a 'yum update' first (possibly a 'yum clean all' and then 'yum update') to make sure that yum is knowledgeable about the available packages. Craig