yum dependency errors with libssl and libcrypto
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jun 22 06:06:01 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> > But your query is wrong anyway. The dependencies you see are on
> > "libssl.so.5", which is not a file, but a "shared object name":
> >
> > $ rpm --query --whatprovides libssl.so.5
> > openssl-0.9.7f-7
>
> You are quite right, thanks.
>
> [tim at alfred ~]$ rpm --query --whatprovides libssl.so.5
> openssl-0.9.7f-7
> [tim at alfred ~]$ rpm --query --whatprovides libcrypto.so.5
> openssl-0.9.7f-7
> [I had assumed that -f was the same as --whatprovides .]
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't seem to help with my problem,
> which is why I get a large number of dependency errors,
> all referring to libssl.so.5 or libcrypto.so.5 ,
> although both these appear to be in place,
> provided by the package openssl-0.9.7f-7.i686.rpm .
>
> I'm not clear why there is a reference to openssl.i386 0:0.9.7a-42.1
> in the exerpt below;
> this appears to be an old package which is no longer present.
> (I should say that I upgraded from FC-3 to FC-4,
> and have in fact upgraded on this machine all the way from Redhat-8.2 ,
> as none of the distribution kernels have run on this SCSI-only box.)
>
> If anyone has any advice or suggestion
> how I can get round the dependency errors
> (some of which I give below)
> I shall be very grateful.
>
> =================================================
> [root at alfred tim]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> pre-extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
An FC4 system should be using an "extras" repository (specified
in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo), so it seems that your yum
configuration is at least partly still configured for FC3. What are your
repo definitions?
Paul.
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