Question about installing with yum...

[Kevin Martin]

I'm trying to get wine installed on Fedora 13 x86_64 but I get an error:

Transaction Check Error:
  package libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than libuuid-2.17.2-8.fc13.i686) is already installed
  package mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-8.fc13.i686) is already installed
  package openldap-2.4.21-11.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13.i686) is already installed

Of course, if I try to downgrade these packages then yum complains that other packages have dependencies on these versions.  Is
there some way to get around this?

Thanks.

Kevin

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:20:36 -0500, Kevin wrote:
> I'm trying to get wine installed on Fedora 13 x86_64 but I get an error:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   package libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than libuuid-2.17.2-8.fc13.i686) is already installed

What do you see when you run "yum list libuuid"?
> package mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-8.fc13.i686) is already installed

What do you see when you run "yum list mesa-libGLU"?
> package openldap-2.4.21-11.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13.i686) is already installed

What do you see when you run "yum list openldap"?
> Of course, if I try to downgrade these packages then yum complains that other packages have dependencies on these versions.  Is
> there some way to get around this?

These packages are supposed to be in sync _in_ the x86_64 repository _and_
in your installation.

In other words, if libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.x86_64 is installed already
(according to one message you quoted), the corresponding
libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.i686 is found in exactly the same repository.

What can happen, though, is that temporarily you are assigned to a mirror
repository that offers older packages. Then, if your installation is
x86_64 only, there would be problems in adding non-matching i686 packages.

That's why it is important to run some yum/rpm/repoquery queries and examine
the current state of your installation _and_ the used repositories before
one can decide why you encounter problems.

["Germán A. Racca"]

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> I'm trying to get wine installed on Fedora 13 x86_64 but I get an error:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   package libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than libuuid-2.17.2-8.fc13.i686) is already installed
>   package mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-8.fc13.i686) is already installed
>   package openldap-2.4.21-11.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13.i686) is already installed
>
> Of course, if I try to downgrade these packages then yum complains that other packages have dependencies on these versions.  Is
> there some way to get around this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin

Kevin:

Did you see that the older versions are i686 and your system is x86_64?