Yum update problems: fixed Livna, now what?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 16:37:36 UTC 2005


On 11/7/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After several days of yum problems (no livna), I switched to the
> > failovermethod=priority mirror method, and yum starts normally.
> > However, it bombs out with:
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: dbus-qt = 0.33-3.1.fc4.kde is needed by
> > package dbus-devel
> >
> > When can I get that? If I just download it as an rpm (I haven't
> > checked from where yet), will that screw anything up?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_digital_camera.html
> >
>
>  What I did was to rpm -e dbus-devel and then everything worked just fine.
> Apparently, dbus-devel was not needed by anythng on my system, although it
> must have been at one time, otherwise I would never have installed it in the
> first place.
>

Isn't there a way to see what depends on something before I -e it? I
just did a man rpm but didn't see an option for checking. How is that
done?

Dotan
http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html




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