Yum update problem -

[Larry Brower]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Yum update does not complete this morning. I am presented with an error 
> message:
> 
>     --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>     Miro-2.5.4-1.fc12.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
>        --> Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.1.6 is needed by package
>     Miro-2.5.4-1.fc12.x86_64 (installed)
>     Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.1.6 is needed by package
>     Miro-2.5.4-1.fc12.x86_64 (installed)
>       You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>       You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                              package-cleanup --dupes
>                              rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> 
> I tried the above and:
> 
>     [root at box6 bobg]# yum update --exclude gnome-mplayer-0.9.8-1.fc12.i686
> 
> 
> With the same result. Not certain the above command is correct though?
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.
> 
> Bob
> 
Ive come across this on CentOS a few times and the solution usually has 
been to manually download the affected RPM's from a repo and install 
them using rpm -Uvh --nodeps
After that things worked correctly.