Problem updating Mozilla with up2date

John Li johnli at ahlt.net
Sat Jan 3 00:31:56 UTC 2004


 
> Norman Gaywood wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:38:37PM -0500, John Li wrote:
> > 
> >>  I'm having problems updating Mozilla with up2date--it looks like
> >>a bug that other people would have encountered.  When updating
> >>from Mozilla 1.4.1-17 to 1.4.1-18 only (no other updates checked),
> >>the following message pops up:
> >>
> >>There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:
> >>
> >>Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> >>
> >>galeon-1.2.7-3      requires Mozilla = 35:1.2.1
> > 
> >  
> > rpm -e galeon
> 
> Great, if you want to kill galeon.  It'd be better to:
> 
> 	rpm -Fvh --nodeps mozilla*.rpm
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

Aha...it turns out that 'rpm -e galeon' is probably the best choice--
Galeon has been dropped by Fedora.  (It still seems strange that
exactly Epoch 35 of Mozilla 1.2.1 was required, and that others
haven't encountered this problem...)

John





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