[rhn-users] Update software through up2date - Problems

[Clinton Fernandes]

There may be an option in up2date to automatically grab dependancies. I can't
say anything more than that though.

A thought just came to mind. When a file is in a dependancy, rpm will usually
suggest that package as a solution. For example:

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[root at itchy ~]# rpm -ivh ~clint/tmp/postgresql-odbc-7.3-8.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libodbcinst.so.1 is needed by postgresql-odbc-7.3-8.i386
        postgresql-libs >= 7.3 is needed by postgresql-odbc-7.3-8.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        postgresql-libs-7.4.6-1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm
        unixODBC-2.2.9-1.i386.rpm
[root at itchy ~]#
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If the error you are receiving is not similar to this, then I have two suggestions:

1) the file(s) you needed are not provided by redhat (for some reason). Try
getting them from whoever makes them.

2) you do have the needed file(s) but they are corrupt/have a broken
link/something else. Try re-installing the package.

Good luck!

-- 
          my tail is dun.


Quoting Johan Holst Nielsen - Print2People ApS <jhn at print2people.com>:

> Clinton Fernandes wrote:
> > I have run into this problem several times: what package does a given
> binary
> > belong to?
> 
> Yeah :( Sometimes the rpm system is annoying.
> 
> > I never found a satisfactory way of answering this question. But you may
> get
> > lucky by searching the redhat site knowledgebase for the file you are
> looking
> > for. If you're lucky there will be an answer that will mention the package
> in it.
> 
> I will try to search more broad. Anyway - can it be a package that is 
> needed for the elfutilities - and then elfutilities report an error when 
> the new rpm version is tried to install. (I'm used to Debian where I 
> never had those problems - but there is just a lot of annoying problems 
> with hardware support ;))
> 
> > Or try the same with google.
> > 
> > Alternatively, maybe the elfutils package you have installed needs to be
> updated...?
> 
> Tried that - according the to the package search on rhn it is in the 
> latest available version :(
> 
> Regards,
> Johan
> 
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