Updating Yum requires pygpgme - not in mirror

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 09:22:15 UTC 2008


On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:50:39 -0700 (PDT), Todd N wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I am trying to update yum from version 3.2.8 to version 3.2.19 on my Fedora 8 system.  When I run "yum update yum", I get a message indicating a missing dependency, that "pygpgme is needed by package yum".  
>

Then your repository configuration is broken.

> However, there is no package pygpgme on any of the mirrors I have checked.  Will this package eventually update to the mirrors?  
>  
> Any answers are appreciated.
>  

It's in the Everything repository for a very long time, e.g:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/repoview/pygpgme.html

Look in the right repository. Use 

  yum list pygpgme
or:
  yum whatprovides pygpgme
or:
  repoquery --whatprovides pygpgme




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