Fedora 9 dependency issues

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 20:14:31 UTC 2008


On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:29:43 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote:

> I've got a dependency issue that I'm not sure how to deal with.  This is 
> a Fedora 9 x86_64 system.  I'm trying to install tkinter and I'm running 
> the command "sudo yum install tkinter"  yum proceeds to run, listing the 
> packages that need to be included to satisfy the dependencies.  However 
> it gets to:
> 
> --> Missing Dependency: python = 2.5.1-25.fc9 is needed by package 
> tkinter-2.5.1-25.fc9.x86_64 (fedora)
> DEBUG:
> []
> Error: Missing Dependency: python = 2.5.1-25.fc9 is needed by package 
> tkinter-2.5.1-25.fc9.x86_64 (fedora)
> 
> 
> 
> I then try to install python by itself with "sudo yum install python" 
> and I get the following:
> 
> Package matching python-2.5.1-25.fc9.x86_64 already installed. Checking 
> for update.
> Nothing to do
> 
> 
> So for whatever reason it appears as if tkinter is looking for the non 
> x86_64 version.
> 
> How do I get around this?

Could you please show the result of some queries?

  yum repolist
  yum list tkinter python
  rpm -q tkinter python

And just to mention it, 2.5.1-26.fc9 (python+tkinter) is latest.




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