[rhn-users] Update software through up2date - Problems

[Marty Merrick]

If you have a system (or someone here on the list does, mine doesn't)
that has the file you're looking for, you can do this:

First find the file on the system, note it's full path, then:

rpm -qf /path/to/file

It will spit out the package name.

Marty


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:54 -0700, Clinton Fernandes wrote:
> 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:
> 
> ------------------------------
> [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 ~]#
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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!
>