yum dependencies problem

Andrew cmkrnl at speakeasy.net
Wed Sep 29 23:06:24 UTC 2004


Hi,

-- Same just rpm -e linc-devel

Word of advice in case you didn't hear that you want to exclude udev 
today - check the devel list for the warning

Andrew

dustin wrote:

>Greetings,
>	I've been using Fedora Core 2 for a while and decided to try out FC3-
>test2. I got it installed with no problems and I'm writing this from it.
>The problem is that I am trying to use up2date to update my system, and
>I keep getting a dependency error. It is saying that linc is required to
>install linc-devel. Here is the output from yum:
>
>Requiring package is installed: linc-devel - 1.0.3-6.i386
>Resolving for installed requiring package: linc-devel - 1.0.3-6.i386
>Resolving for requirement: linc= 1.0.3
>Mode for pkg providing linc= 1.0.3: None
>Searching pkgSack for dep: linc
>Potential match for linc from linc - 1.0.3-6.i386
>Matched linc - 1.0.3-6.i386 to require for linc
>miss = 2
>conf = 0
>CheckDeps = 0
>Finished Dependency Resolution
>Dependency Process ending
>Error: missing dep: linc for pkg linc-devel
>
>
>I look at that and notice that linc nor linc-devel are in the repository
>from the mirror im using. I figure it's no big deal and I just download
>the linc version it wants and go to install it, only to get a message
>saying that it is already installed.
>
>[root at median ~]# rpm -qa | grep linc
>linc-devel-1.0.3-6
>linc-1.0.3-6
>[root at median ~]#
>
>yum wants 1.0.3, but I have 1.0.3-6. This normally shouldn't matter, but
>for some reason yum doesn't like this. Is anyone else experiencing this?
>Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
>
>Thanks,
>dustin
>
>
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