Resolving dependencies
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 15 14:08:32 UTC 2007
Bryan Zimmer wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I am not new to fedora but haven't had this problem before.
>
> I get a balloon at the top of the screen announcing "384 Security
> Updates available" (I guess this is the "pup" program).
>
> When I click to get the updates, the program (pup?) does a dependency
> check. So far I've never gotten around this. It will say "libinchi.so.0
> is needed by openbabel", or something similar, then the whole update
> process fails. I've tried to use "yum' to find some of the dependencies.
> but so far it hasn't worked very well.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to say: "Go ahead, download the updates, and get
> any dependencies, too". Or tell me how to use yum or some program to get
> those dependencies.
>
> I'd appreciate any response.
Which version of Fedora? Was it a upgrade or a fresh installation?
What's the output of yum update?
Rahul
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