On 15/11/2007, Bryan Zimmer <zimmer.bryan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear folks, > > I am not new to fedora but haven't had this problem before. > > I get a balloon at the top of the screen announcing "384 Security Updates > available" (I guess this is the "pup" program). > > When I click to get the updates, the program (pup?) does a dependency check. > So far I've never gotten around this. It will say "libinchi.so.0 is needed > by openbabel", or something similar, then the whole update process fails. > I've tried to use "yum' to find some of the dependencies. but so far it > hasn't worked very well. > > Can anyone tell me how to say: "Go ahead, download the updates, and get any > dependencies, too". Or tell me how to use yum or some program to get those > dependencies. What does "yum repolist" print? It looks like you may be missing some repositories, e.g. the Fedora "Everything" repository that contains openbabel and inchi. $ yum whatprovides libinchi.so.0 inchi.i386 : The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) library $ yum list inchi Available Packages inchi.i386 1.0.1-8.fc8 fedora
