laptop update issue

[Bill Davidsen]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:20:52 -0600
> theatre at sasktel.net (Frank Cox) wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to run "yum update" on a F8 laptop that hasn't been
>> updated for a few months.
>>
>> It goes through all of the motions, downloads all of the updates,
>> then I get this:
>>
>> QUOTE:
>> Transaction Summary
>> =============================================================================
>> Install     17 Package(s)         
>> Update     313 Package(s)         
>> Remove       1 Package(s)         
>>
>> Total download size: 726 M
>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>> Downloading Packages:
>> Running rpm_check_debug
>> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
>> Package NetworkManager needs NetworkManager-glib =
>> 1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8, this is not available. Package
>> NetworkManager needs NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8,
>> this is not available. Complete! END OF QUOTE
> 
> NetworkManager in F8 gold release was multiarch. Then in an update it
> became non multi-arch. You have a x86_64 system, right? 
> 
> Do: 
> 
> yum remove NetworkManager.i386
> 
> and it should remove a few i386 packages and allow your update to
> complete after that. 
> 
While I don't have this particular problem, thanks for the hint. I've 
seen similar before, which I solved by removing and reinstalling the 
whole package, now I know one reason why this might be happening.

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