missing dependency php

[Craig White]

Let's keep this on list - it wasn't my problem, and I see no reason for
you to send this to me privately.

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:26 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2005 7:18 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 19:03 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > On Apr 3, 2005 5:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:15 -0700, kate wrote:
> > 
> > > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org is needed by
> > > > > package openoffice.org-i18n
> > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: system-config-printer is
> > > > > needed by package system-config-printer-gui
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll try the same syntax for oppenoffice.org and
> > > > > system-config...
> > 
> > >
> > > You might consider installing a GUI based package manager such as
> > > smart or synaptic (requires apt). The GUI will provide faster feedback
> > > for all install packages as well as packages you plan to install.  You
> > > can get these from the DAG repo.
> > ----
> > she's got a problem with multiple versions of the same packages.
> > 
> > I know that installing apt pointing to an entirely different repository
> > isn't going to help this problem.
> 
> Apt need not point to exotic repositories.  Many Fedora Core mirrors
> are apt enabled.  Apt has the advantage over yum in that you can use
> "apt-get check" to check for broken dependencies.
> 
> Synaptic provides a GUI for apt. Using synaptic she can see the
> dependency issues right away, evaluate the recommended changes, and
> decide on her course of action.
> 
> > 
> > I don't know how smart would react to it and thus, I would never suggest
> > this to her as a solution.
> > 
> > If you 'know' that smart can fix this problem - then by all means, let
> > us know.
> > 
> > If you don't know that smart can fix this problem, would you suggest
> > that your advice give above might not be the proper advice to give to
> > her?
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> > 
> 
> Smart Program Manager, http://smartpm.org , will definitely fix her
> problem.  It is in beta (currently at 0.30).  Smart is very good at
> resolving dependencies ( in my opinion much better than apt or yum )
> and from the GUI, smart-gui, will allow you to do on-the-spot
> up/downgrade of packages as necessary to fix dependencies.
> 
> The biggest compliant that I have with the smart is that you really
> need a reasonably fast processor with more than 256 MB memory;
> otherwise, you wait a long time for the program to update and itterate
> through all of the enable repositories' meta data.
> 
> You can get apt, synaptic, smart, smart-update, and smart-gui from Dag
> Wieers site: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/
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I know apt/yum/up2date and smart

Once again, her problem is that she has multiple versions of the same
packages - not sure why I have to keep repeating this.

Her problem is that she cannot solve dependency issues because there are
multiple versions of the same package - in this case openoffice, system-
config-printer and previously, it was php which we solved. Obviously,
yum would be able to solve & install dependent packages if this problem
didn't exist and the addition of another overlay program like apt is
going to have the same problem. This isn't a yum problem - this is a
problem with the base of rpm packages that are already installed on this
system. 

I know that apt/yum/up2date cannot solve the problem of having multiple
versions of the same packages and have had her resort to manually
removing them with rpm -e --allmatches NAMES_OF_PACKAGES. I don't have a
situation like this where I can test how smart would handle it and have
no systems that I am willing to hose to find out.

If you have a better idea, by all means express it.

Craig