Yet More Yum Woe

[Ron Siven]

Beartooth wrote:
>         "yum update" on one of my F10 machines looks all right, even 
> through the download -- and then I get this :
>
> (39/39): perl-5.10.0-52.fc10.i386.rpm                    |  14 MB 01:24
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total                                           140 kB/s |  44 MB 05:18
> ============================== Entering rpm code ========================
> Running rpm_check_debug
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> mono(gdk-sharp) is needed by (installed) sysinfo-0.7-1.i386
> mono(glade-sharp) is needed by (installed) sysinfo-0.7-1.i386
> mono(glib-sharp) is needed by (installed) sysinfo-0.7-1.i386
> mono(gtk-sharp) is needed by (installed) sysinfo-0.7-1.i386
> Complete!
> (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])
>
>         I haven't the faintest idea what that means; so I google the 
> error line.
>
> 	It sends me to a wad of sites on Fedora-forum (which I never have 
> been able to use; but I see there are discussions back at least to 2007).
>
>         So I go to that yum site, and it wants me to register; I try.
>
>         Three different browsers tell me its certificate is no good, and 
> urge me strongly not to go there.
>
>         I try yum update again; same result. One of the forum threads 
> that I do get to suggests the OP remove something. I try "yum remove 
> mono*" -- and get this :
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ================================================================================
>  Package                  Arch      Version Repository      Size
> ================================================================================
> Removing:
>  mono-addins              i386      0.3.1-2.2.fc10         installed 715 k
>  mono-core                i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 25 M
>  mono-data                i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 3.8 M
>  mono-data-sqlite         i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 350 k
>  mono-extras              i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 637 k
>  mono-web                 i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 8.2 M
>  mono-winforms            i386      2.0.1-12.fc10          installed 7.6 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  evolution-sharp          i386      0.18.1-1.fc10          installed 544 k
>  f-spot                   i386      0.4.4-6.fc10           installed 7.9 M
>  gmime-sharp              i386      2.2.21-1.fc10          installed 194 k
>  gnome-desktop-sharp      i386      2.24.0-3.fc10          installed 780 k
>  gnome-sharp              i386      2.24.0-1.fc10          installed 1.3 M
>  gsf-sharp                i386      0.8.1-8.fc10           installed 140 k
>  gtk-sharp2               i386      2.12.4-1.fc10          installed 2.6 M
>  ndesk-dbus               i386      0.6.1a-2.fc9           installed 126 k
>  ndesk-dbus-glib          i386      0.4.1-3.fc9            installed 11 k
>  sysinfo                  i386      0.7-1                  installed 336 k
>  taglib-sharp             i386      2.0.3.0-7.fc10         installed 433 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove      18 Package(s)
>
>         Some of that looks very serious; I don't want to futz with things 
> named sysinfo nor gnome-desktop-*. (I might, but I once did try some such 
> thing, long ago, and it removed yum! I had one devil of a time with 
> that ...)
>
>         So am I stymied?? (Three other F10 machines so far have updated 
> just fine btw.)
>
>   
I do not have either mono or sysinfo installed.  So, I can only assume 
that it's OK to remove them.  Of course some apps might not work (isn't 
mono an implementation of .NET for Linux?)

Did you try :

yum remove sysinfo*

and then :

yum update