Still having up2date problems (and yum too)

[Richard E Miles]

> Thanks for the help, here's the progress:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 19:44, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > You should not have two versions of Mozilla. Erase the old one
> > (rpm -e mozilla-1.4.1-18).
> > 
> I tried this and received the following result:
> root at Linux64 law]# rpm -e mozilla-1.4.1-18
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libgkgfx.so is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
>         libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
>         libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
>         libxpcom_compat.so is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
>         mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
>         mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
>         mozilla = 37:1.4.1-18 is needed by (installed)
> mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I guess there are more mozilla packages installed, see
> > 
> >   rpm -qa 'mozilla*'
> Lots of mozilla packages show up:
> [root at Linux64 law]# rpm -qa mozilla*
> mozilla-chat-1.6-8
> mozilla-js-debugger-1.6-8
> mozilla-devel-1.6-8
> mozilla-nss-devel-1.6-8
> mozilla-nspr-1.4.1-18
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4.1-18
> mozilla-mail-1.4.1-18
> mozilla-nss-1.6-8
> mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-8
> mozilla-mail-1.6-8
> mozilla-nss-1.4.1-18
> mozilla-nspr-1.6-8
> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.6-8
> mozilla-1.6-8
> mozilla-1.4.1-18
> mozilla-devel-1.4.1-18
> [root at Linux64 law]#
> 
> > instead of querying specific package names.
> > 
> > > [root at Linux64 law]# rpm -q mozilla-nspr-devel
> > > mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-8
> > > [root at Linux64 law]# rpm -q mozilla-nss-devel
> > > mozilla-nss-devel-1.6-8
> > > [root at Linux64 law]# 
> > > 
> > > So those packages are there.. but yum doesnt seem them. 
> > 
> > It does, but there are newer versions in Released Updates which
> > cannot be installed due to:
> > 
> > > My
> > > /etc/yum.conf file is:
> > > [main]
> > > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > > debuglevel=2
> > > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > > pkgpolicy=newest
> > > distroverpkg=redhat-release
> > > tolerant=1
> > > exactarch=1
> > > retries=20
> > > exclude=mozilla-devel
> > 
> > Why do you exclude 'mozilla-devel'?
> 
> I tried excluding mozilla-devel in hopes to get "yum update" to run
> since that seems to be the package yum is bombing out on.
> 
> Law
> 
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Since you need mozilla-devel to resolve the rpm dependencies you shouldn't exclude it otherwise you'll never get it to resolve.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097