Unresolved dependencies with up2date

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:54:04 +0200, g.bragante at tin.it wrote:

> Running up2date -uf ona Fedora Core 2 I get the following output:
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-2...
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc2...
> 
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> fam                                     2.6.10         9.FC2
> i386
> fam-devel                               2.6.10         9.FC2
> i386
> iiimf-client-lib                        11.4           46.1.svn1587
> i386
> iiimf-client-lib-devel                  11.4           46.1.svn1587
> i386
> iiimf-protocol-lib                      11.4           46.1.svn1587
> i386
> iiimf-protocol-lib-devel                11.4           46.1.svn1587
> i386
> initscripts                             7.55.1         1
> i386
> ppp                                     2.4.2          3.FC2.1
> i386
> 
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
> 
> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> fam-devel  2.6.10-9.FC2                  requires libselinux-devel
> 
> Then no update is performed.
> What can I do ?

You can work around it and run "up2date libselinux-devel fam-devel" which
should install the missing package. If that fails, your sources file is
incomplete because it doesn't know where to get the package (Fedora Core 2
repository).