Frustrating update problem

Mark Bradbury mark.bradbury at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 01:41:00 UTC 2004


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:36:56 -0400, Jim Cornette
<fct-cornette at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:02, Gord McLeod wrote:
> >
> >>Greetings,
> >>
> >>Error: missing dep: iiimf-server for pkg iimf-le-sun-asia
> >>Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts: xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 6.7.99.903-3
> >>
> >>Any suggestions on where I might get the needed packages, or even
> >>which packages I could safely remove to get rid of this? Or heck, even
> >>a command to make yum ignore the set of packages with the dependancy
> >>problems and just update everything it CAN update? I'm a good 800+
> >>updates behind and would like to catch up.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> >
> >
> > I have had the same error with xorg-x11-base-fonts and excluded
> > xorg-x11-font-utils in yum.conf.
> > <yum.conf>
> > exclude=xorg-x11-font-utils
> > </yum.conf>
> >
> > Regards
> > Kimmo Koivisto
> >
> >
> 
> I got this problem when trying to install all of xorg-x11 programs on an
> fc2 machine. I then installed FC3T2 RC2 on the computer and updated,
> excluding the xorg-x11-font-utils program mentioned.
> Then, after installing the other rawhide programs unrelated to xorg, I
> ran up2date again and got the xorg-x11-font-utils package without any
> problems.
> 
> One curiousity was that some of the older version packages that were
> from prior xorg packages were never pulled in and must be obsoleted.
> 
> Anyway, after upgrading the computer and installing the
> xorgx11-font-utils package,no leftover packages are seen when querying
> xorg related packages.
> 
> Jim
> 
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I installed fonts-xorg-base-6.7.99.903-5 which seems to replace
xorg-x11-base-fonts





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