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> Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 09:54:04 +0200 > From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: f10 failed to update perl for missing dependency > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:40:58 -0400, vincent wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I am running fedora 10 in HP laptop zv6000, the last couple update were >> incomplete because the dependency problem, the following is the message >> that did show when try to update. >> The message "Dependency resolution failed a package could not be found >> that allows the task to complete". >> The details are: >> perl = 4:5.10.0-56.fc10 is needed by package >> 3:perl-version-0.74-56.fc10.i386 >> perl = 4:5.10.0-56.fc10 is needed by package >> 4:perl-libs-5.10.0-56.fc10.i386 >> perl = 4:5.10.0-56.fc10 is needed by package >> 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.60-56.fc10.i386 : Success - empty transaction >> do you have any suggestion on how I can fix it? >> thank you in advance. >> Vinny > > Is this with Yum or PackageKit? Automatic update When the message showed up there was a button call "details" when clicked on showed the few line that I copied and send in. > > What you call "details" is not so detailed. It looks a bit as if your > update tool was seeing a newer "perl" but not the corresponding updates > of other/related packages. Messages like that mean that it could not apply > some updates because it would break dependencies of old/installed > packages. > > Please open your favourite terminal, run "yum clean metadata ; yum update" > and don't truncate the output if you can repeat the error messages. before execute the above command I want to try to use the
comand "su -c 'yum update' "
and found out that for some reason it update perl
and few other programs without complaint
> > There has been an update of Perl to 5.10.0-68.fc10. The perl-version > (0.74-68.fc10) and perl-Module-Pluggable (3.60-68.fc10) packages are built > from the same "perl" src.rpm package, so normally they are released > together with the "perl" and "perl-libs" packages and should be available > at the same time as the new "perl" package. > > Typically the fix is to clean old/cached repository metadata, try again > and wait till you're assigned to a mirror that offers a sufficiently > recent set of updates. Meanwhile you can examine your installed packages > (show what versions of the packages are installed) and list the available > updates in the remote repositories (with repoquery or yum, for example). > It's also possible to view a package repository with your favourite > browser and save a copy of the repodata directory (to further analyse > it in order to find out whether it is bad and only refers to a partial > set of the "perl" updates). > Thank you again |
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