RES: glib2 missing

[Kam Leo]

On 9/19/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 11:53, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:04, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>>> cat /etc/redhat-release
> >>> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
> >> You're not completely running rawhide then, which is good.
> >>
> >> When you say your apps want glib2, what exactly do you mean?
> >> What are you trying to do and what error message do you get?
> >
> > fire up yumex select the apps from the group selection add to
> > queue then process queue then the dependency complaint comes.  I
> > understand the complaint now because the apps are looking for an
> > older glib2 file.
> >
> > I either need to figure out how to install the older file again or
> > just wait until FC6 is released and do a clean install of FC6.
> > My box does run but I am getting daily crashing of Kontact and
> > QuantaPlus.
>
> # yum install yum-utils
> # yumdownloader glib2
> # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage glib2*.rpm
>
> There may be dependency issues here. That would depend on how many other
> FC6 packages you installed along with the FC6 glib2 package. If it
> doesn't work, post the output you get from the above commands.
>
> Paul.
>

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