On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 20:15 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 17/03/07, J.Moore wrote: > > This is the first problem I've ever had with missing dependencies using > > yum... Could someone point me in the right direction to find the > > problem? <<<<<<<<<< SNIP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > Typically this means that none of your installed packages and none of > the packages in your enabled repositories provides the needed > 'libdevmapper.so.1.02'. This can also happen if an already installed > package or any in the enabled repositories upgrades device-mapper to > an incompatible version, which does not include the needed component. > > Run > > rpm --query --whatprovides libdevmapper.so.1.02 > > to see if any installed package is sufficient. For example: > > $ rpm -q --whatprovides libdevmapper.so.1.02 > device-mapper-1.02.02-3.2 > $ rpm -q --whatprovides 'libdevmapper.so.1.02(Base)' > device-mapper-1.02.02-3.2 > > If the query does not print the device-mapper package, run > > rpm --query device-mapper > > to find out what version is installed. It must be a version compatible > with Fedora Core 5. If you have an incompatible one, get a good one > and downgrade it with "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage file.rpm", then continue > with your yum update. > [root@aria jamoore]# rpm --query --whatprovides libdevmapper.so.1.02 [root@aria jamoore]# rpm --query device-mapper device-mapper-1.02.13-1.fc5 Judging from the package name ending in .fc5, I'd guess this is *supposed* to be compatible with FC5. I guess I'm lost at this point - any further suggestions? Thnx, Jay
