On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:03:20 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote:
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What do you get if you run
rpm --query --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)'
and
repoquery --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)'
?
The first tells me an rpm for gtk-sharp; the second just gives my root prompt back.
In case you don't have repoquery yet, you can find it in the "yum-utils" package.
I tried "yum install yum-utils" -- it says I have it, and it's the latest.
There has been a gtk-shark2 update recently, and it certainly provides these four things which are complained about.
"sysinfo" is not found in the Fedora package collection, however. I wonder whether that might be of importance. If you "rpm -e sysinfo" it and then try yum update again, any change?
Complete! (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])
I haven't the faintest idea what that means; so I google the
error line.
It sends me to a wad of sites on Fedora-forum (which I never have been able to use; but I see there are discussions back at least to 2007).
So I go to that yum site, and it wants me to register; I try. Three different browsers tell me its certificate is no good, and
urge me strongly not to go there.
Still you could choose to go there (and add an exception for the certificate). ;)
I tried it, and the warnings got stronger; one (Galeon or Epiphany) assured me that no honest X,Y, or Z (which seemed to cover 99 44/100% of the waterfront among them) would ever ask me to do that. That's when I quit and asked here instead. *Can* someone vouch for yum.baseurl.org -- including that nobody could be spoofing it??
I'd've done it if it'd been a site I know; but it isn't.
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Transaction Summary
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Some of that looks very serious; I don't want to futz with things
named sysinfo nor gnome-desktop-*. (I might, but I once did try some such thing, long ago, and it removed yum! I had one devil of a time with that ...)
Now, after Ron Siven's assurance here, I have removed "sysinfo" -- and everything seems fine. Some sort of orphan from an old install, maybe ....
If it prints a list of what packages it will remove, it won't silently remove itself.
Yes; many a time have I taken advantage of that.
What makes "yum remove ..." dangerous is that other dependency chains are much longer and would lead to removing many more packages. Paying close attention to the printed list and the y/n safety check is very important.
Yes!!
Many many thanks!