<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16825" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>> > Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 09:54:04 +0200 > From: Michael Schwendt <<A href="">mschwendt@gmail.com</A>> > Subject: Re: f10 failed to update perl for missing dependency > To: <A href="">fedora-list@redhat.com</A> > > 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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>before execute the above command I want to try to use the comand "su -c 'yum update' "</DIV> <DIV>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</DIV></BODY></HTML>