[Repost] What is "Error: Protected multilib versions"

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Apr 5 12:32:26 UTC 2012



Am 05.04.2012 14:23, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> I still get this error several times a week, and I still have no idea
> what it means or how I'm supposed to respond to it (other than
> fiddling randomly with packages until it goes away).
> 
> The latest one:
> 
> # yum install /usr/sbin/libvirtd
> [... yum spew deleted ...]
> Error: Protected multilib versions: libvirt-client-0.9.10-2.fc17.i686 != libvirt-client-0.9.10-3.fc17.x86_64
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep libvirt-client
> libvirt-client-0.9.10-3.fc17.x86_64
> 
> What does the error mean?

this means some broken dependencies where yum starts
often randomly to pull i686 packages even on systems
with no single i686 packages and while the broken
dependencie before is satisfied it collides with
the installed x86_64 package

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