On 11/13/2010 06:08 PM, JD wrote: > On 11/13/2010 12:56 PM, Kam Leo wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:11 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> On 11/13/2010 11:48 AM, fred smith wrote: >> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:56:31AM -0800, JD wrote: >> >> yum check >> >> reports missing packages. >> >> Is there a way to yum install missing packages >> >> without having to specify their names? >> > I suppose you could capture to a file, the list yum gives of missing >> > packages, then edit the file til it looks like a yum >> commandline, then >> > run it. >> > >> Yeah I know that. >> I was hoping that there is an incantation of yum >> or a package manager to go and fetch and install >> missing packages. >> Thanx for the suggestion. >> >> >> If the missing packages are dependencies and are available they will >> be automatically pulled in when you run yum. > I did yum update and yum says: > . > . > . > Setting up Update Process > No Packages marked for Update yum check lists the packages that you have installed that do not have all of their required dependencies installed. How can this be? One possibility that pops to mind is that you have some "old" packages installed of which their dependencies have been upgraded, but your "old" packages list the dependencies as ='s installed of >='s. This seems to be a rather common problem with certain packages, and make updating them problematic. It happens. I have a couple of f12 packages on my (now) f14 laptop that require (for example) python-abi = 2.6. But, Python on f14 is now 2.7. Your choices at this point are limited: 1) remove the old packages with the dependency problems. If you cannot find current packages, maybe you can rebuild them from source. 2) assume that the old packages will work with the newer versions of its dependencies. (Always a risk.) 3) find/install the old dependencies. (I do not recommend this option except as a last resort, as there is no guarantee that the old dependencies and the newer version of them can co-exist, and it may require you to "force" some installations leading to further database problems down the road). -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
