RHEL4: python2.3 is needed by package libxml-python

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:54:12 -0500, Ken Morley wrote:

> I have a brand new RHEL4 server that I'm trying to update using "yum
> update".  It's failing as follows:
>  
> ----------< snip >----------
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> 00:00     
> verio                     100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> rhn                       100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package alpine.i386 0:1.00-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package python.i386 0:2.4.4-1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.3 for package:
> libxml2-python
> Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.3 for package:
> libxslt-python
> Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.3 is needed by package
> libxml2-python
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.3 is needed by package
> libxslt-python
> ----------< snip >----------
>  
> The installed versions of these packages are python 2.3.4-14.2,
> libxml2-python 2.6.27-1 and libxslt-python 1.1.20-1.  I see there is a
> newer version of python (2.4.4-1) in the verio repo.  The other two
> installed packages are the latest available.  The versions available in
> the rhn repo are both older.
>  
> Is this indicating that yum would like to upgrade python to 2.4.4-1, but
> doing so would break libxml-python and libxslt-python?  

Yes.

> Any suggestions
> for getting around the problem? 

Choose repositories that are made for RHEL4.