PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

[DB]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2008 22:00:16 DB wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:21:01 DB wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>>>>     pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch
>>>>>>     python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch
>>>>>>             
>>>>> So what happened when you installed these?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Anne,
>>>>
>>>> any suggestions on an address from which to attempt to install them with
>>>> RPM???
>>>>         
>>> No, but 'rpm -qi pygpgme' and 'rpm -qi python-iniparse' both tell me that
>>> they were provided by Fedora Project.  I can only suggest that you might
>>> have a mirror problem?
>>>
>>> python-iniparse was updated on the 12th December, so is it possible that
>>> some glitch during that upgrade caused your problem?  Dirty electricity
>>> sounds a far more likely culprit than packagekit.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>       
>> My results:
>>
>> [Dave at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi pygpgme
>> package pygpgme is not installed
>> [Dave at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi python-iniparse
>> package python-iniparse is not installed
>> [Dave at localhost ~]$
>>
>> Is there a way to tell rpm to go off and search a specific repo?  
>>     
>
> If they are not installed 'yum install packagename' should pull them in - and 
> you can list both packages in one command.
>   
>> I
>> tried rpm --whatprovides yum but that evidently is not acceptable!  
>>     
>
> It's not apparent from the help file, but I think the command is 'rpm -q 
> whatprovides ....' but I don't think that would have helped in this situation.  
> I'd try
>
> yum install pygpgme python-iniparse yum
>   

Ahhh, "now there's the rub" according to Shakespeare -- yum got scoffed 
as well!  All I appear to have working in the package management 
department is rpm....
>   
>> (The
>> joys of trying to learn a new system!  20 years ago, I had great battles
>> with the hard copy manuals.......)
>>
>>     
> Strange things go wrong when you are first learning, and sometimes it's hard 
> to know why, but you should soon settle to it, once you get this sorted out.
>
> Anne
>
>   

Again, many thanks for your help

Dave