Unresolvable chain of dependencies - yum

[Gerry Tool]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:59 -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>>Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>
>>
>>>gnome-applets 2.9.6-2 requires libwnck-1.so.4
>>
>>Even though I enter
>>[root at gstpc ~]# yum -y --exclude=gnome-applets --exclude=gnome-pilot update
>>I get
>>--> Running transaction check
>>--> Processing Dependency: libwnck-1.so.4 for package: gnome-applets
>>--> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.8 for package: gnome-pilot
>>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>Error: Missing Dependency: libwnck-1.so.4 is needed by package gnome-applets
>>Error: Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.8 is needed by package gnome-pilot
>>
>>at the end of the yum output.
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
> yum --exclude=gnome-applets\* --exclude=gnome-pilot\* --exclude=usermode\* --exclude=libwnck\* --exclude=gnome-system\* --exclude=\gnome-panel\* --exclude=gok\* --exclude=pilot-link\* update
> 
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 
Thanks for the command example, Rodd.  I had to add --exclude=kdepim\* 
since I had kdepim installed, and then everything finally updated. - 253 
packages and I had already updated xorg and openoffice.org individually.

Gerry