Fedora 9 Missing Dependencies

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:43:39 -0400, Partha Bagchi wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:42:53 -0400, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> >
> >> uname -a > Linux Bordeaux 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3
> >> 03:42:27 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >>
> >> Did a yum update today. Got the following error:
> >> ------
> >> libcurl-7.18.2-6.fc9.i386 from updates-newkey has depsolving problems
> >>   --> Missing Dependency: libssh2.so.1 is needed by package
> >> libcurl-7.18.2-6.fc9.i386 (updates-newkey)
> >> Error: Missing Dependency: libssh2.so.1 is needed by package
> >> libcurl-7.18.2-6.fc9.i386 (updates-newkey)
> >> ------
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > Verify your "yum repolist". Make sure the Fedora Everything repository
> > (usually called just "fedora") is enabled.
> >
> > $ sudo repoquery --whatprovides libssh2.so.1
> > libssh2-0:0.18-7.fc9.i386
> >
> > $ yum list libssh2
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > Available Packages
> > libssh2.i386                             0.18-7.fc9             fedora
> >
>
> Looks like when the newkey was updated, fedora.repo was installed as
> fedora.repo.rpmnew which I had not noticed.

No, that only means that you had modified fedora.repo prior to that update
(most likely you disabled it). Else no .rpmnew file would be created, as
RPM would simply overwrite the original unchanged fedora.repo with the new
one.