Removing a kernel

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:49:44 -0400, Christian Del Pino wrote:

> > error: Failed dependencies:
> > kernel >= 2.4.20 is needed by (installed) iptables-1.2.9-2.3.1

> This is what I got from rpm --query kernel
> 
> kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3
> kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
> kernel-2.6.8-1.521

Doesn't make sense that you can't erase the latest kernel then. For
instance,

  $ rpm -q --provides kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
  kernel = 2.6.7
  kernel-drm = 4.3.0
  kernel = 2.6.7-1.494.2.2

so you can see that "iptables" wants "kernel >= 2.4.20" and should
be happy with "kernel = 2.6.7", because 2.6.7 > 2.4.20. Same for the
other errors you got, e.g.

  kernel-drm = 4.3.0 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.7.0-5

Could be that your RPM database is damaged. Run through "rpm -Va"
or verify individual packages. Maybe that will turn up something.