Missing dependency problem

[Arthur Pemberton]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mi, den 13.04.2005 schrieb Arthur Pemberton um 2:41:
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>>>On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:18:10PM -0700, Endy wrote:
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>>>>>% rpm -e libtool
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>>>>Libtool isn't something important?
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>>>Depends on your view of "important". It's a commonly-used tool for building
>>>shared libraries -- but it's a developer tool, and you don't need it as an
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>>will the rpm -e fix this issue once and for all?
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>Having gcc on your system you certainly want libtool too. Removing a
>package just because of a temporary repository failure isn't the
>recommended solution path I feel. You may erase it - even with "yum
>remove libtool" - and make a paper note to reinstall it once the problem
>is solved (tomorrow?).
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Tommorow huh. Ironically I discovered this problem because of another 
problem. I came to burn a cd this morning and suddenly K3B (which i hold 
in such high regard) nolonger recognized my cdrw drive. My googling lead 
me to believe that it was likely a kernel prob, so I was attempting to 
update my kernel (and everything else one time)