Yum better than RPM?

[Kam Leo]

On 3/1/06, Albert A. Modderkolk <mdd at advwebsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:22 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 3/1/06, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Albert A. Modderkolk wrote:
> > >
> > > > I also get this message when trying to update ImageMagick:
> > > >
> > > > Resolving Dependencies
> > > > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > > > ---> Package ImageMagick.x86_64 0:6.2.2.0-3.fc4.1 set to be updated
> > > > ---> Package ImageMagick.i386 0:6.2.2.0-3.fc4.1 set to be updated
> > > > --> Running transaction check
> > > > --> Processing Dependency: ImageMagick = 6.2.2.0-3.fc4.0 for package:
> > > > ImageMagick-c++
> > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > > Error: Missing Dependency: ImageMagick = 6.2.2.0-3.fc4.0 is needed by
> > > > package ImageMagick-c++
> > > >
> > > > ImageMagick seems to require a backward version... are we back to RPM's
> > > > dependency nightmares?  How can I fix this?
> > >
> [snip]
> >
> > There is a newer version of ImageMagick-c++ which matches the other
> > two packages being installed. The OP did not download it. Perhaps he
> > was not aware of its availability?
> >
> Who is the OP?  Anything I can do?
>
> --
> Skype name: amodderkolk
>

I'm sorry. "OP" is list/net-speak for "Original Poster". Who is you, Albert.

If you going to use rpm for your updates you need to get a list of
ImageMagick packages that are already installed on your system, e.g.
"rpm -qa | grep Imagemagick". Then go to the FC update site and
download the latest versions of the installed packages to the same
directory. After downloading cd to your download directory and do
"sudo rpm -Uvh ImageMagick*.rpm".

You can save yourself a lot of this bother if you use YUM to perform
your updates.