FC5 - yum update problems - solution in sight.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 23 22:13:33 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:31 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6 is needed by package vcdimager
>
> > Where are the dependencies for vcdimager supposed to come from?
>
> The libcdio package. It seems that you have an old vcdimager installed
> and it is not set to get updated. However libcdio has moved up to
> libcdio.so.7, so now the old version of the library demanded by your old
> vcdimager will be missing if the update completes.
>
> > Going further I ran:
> > yum --exclude="xine*" --exclude="vcdimager" update
>
> The problem for vcdimager anyway is not that it is getting updated, but
> that libs it relies on are getting updated and it isn't. AFAICT. So
> telling it not to update vcdimager had no effect.
>
> Personally I would
>
> rpm -e vcdimager xine
>
> or
>
> yum remove vcdimager xine
>
> and try again.
>
> -Andy
>
Thanks. I had an epiphany along similar lines and got it to work.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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