Updating FC4

[Michael Comperchio]

Richard E Miles wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:34:49 -0400
>Michael Comperchio <fazoogled at optonline.net> wrote:
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>>I'm fairly new to using LINUX as my desktop...I'm also a natural 
>>blond...ok not really... I wanted an environment that was not XP to 
>>write some code for fun in. (C/C++) I miss it and don't like what I'm 
>>doing at work....so....Unix/LINUX was my choice.
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>>I downloaded and burned the June fedora ISO's. Installed fine, and the 
>>desktop comes up...I can run KDevelop...command lines and compile fine.
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>>I figured I'd click on the RHN update and see what happenes. It 
>>downloads a sh*load of rpm's. starts the actual installs and goes off 
>>into neverland....ok...so I remembered one of the kids at work telling 
>>about 'yum'. After much putzing around I finally discover 'yum update' 
>>and get the following result:
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>>a bunch of this stuff....
>>--> Package libwpd.i386 0:0.8.2-1.fc4 set to be updated
>>---> Package dhcpv6_client.i386 0:0.10-14_FC4 set to be updated
>>--> Running transaction check
>>--> Processing Dependency: net-snmp = 5.2.1-12 for package: net-snmp-libs
>>--> Processing Dependency: python-numeric for package: pygtk2
>>--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>---> Package python-numeric.i386 0:23.7-2 set to be updated
>>--> Running transaction check
>>--> Processing Dependency: net-snmp = 5.2.1-12 for package: net-snmp-libs
>>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>Error: Missing Dependency: net-snmp = 5.2.1-12 is needed by package 
>>net-snmp-libs
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>>Any help would be much appreciated!!! (this started out 'cuz I wanted to 
>>compile the latest Anjuta release which tells me I'm missing appropriate 
>>VTE? rev levels)
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>>Thanks
>>Michael C
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>I have fedora core 4 with lattest updates. I have
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>net-snmp-5.2.1.2-fc4.1 and
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>net-snmp-libs-5.2.1.2-fc4.1
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>I am surprised it's looking for 5.2.1-12. It should be 5.2.1.2.
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Thanks..the helped... I got yum to tell me what it though I had, and it 
thunked I has *.12...so I removed net-snmp completely, installed 
net-snmp, which got me the correct *.1, then the updated proceeded 
painlessly...

again thanks
Michael