Fedora 8 upgrade to 9 missing dependency problem

[M A Young]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Langdon Stevenson wrote:

> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6 is needed by package 
> php-mysql-5.2.6-2.fc8.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.6 is needed by package 
> 6:kdebase-3.5.10-2.fc8.i386 (updates-newkey)
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by package 
> foomatic-3.0.2-67.fc8.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6 is needed by package 
> qt4-x11-4.4.3-1.fc8.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libsilc-1.0.so.2 is needed by package 
> libpurple-2.5.2-1.fc8.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by package 
> 6:kdebase-3.5.10-2.fc8.i386 (updates-newkey)

These are the ones you really need to understand. They aren't necessarily 
the problem themselves, but could indicate that some package doesn't have 
an update patch and is requiring the old version. I am however confused by 
the line
> Error: Missing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by package
> 6:kdebase-3.5.10-2.fc8.i386 (updates-newkey)
which suggests you are still looking at a Fedora 8 updates-newkey, and not 
a Fedora 9 one.

I also notice that kdebase in version 4 not 3 in Fedora 9, and version 3 
libraries are provided by the kdebase3 package. You could try
yum install kdebase3
and see what happens.

An alternate approach is to use preupgrade.

 	Michael Young