yum update problem and a request for a command.
Sharon Kimble
skimble04 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 16:07:09 UTC 2005
Kam Leo wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:50:55 +0000, Sharon Kimble <skimble04 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I have this problem whenever I try to update with yum. It is failing and
>> showing this ;-
>> Error: missing dep: libisccfg.so.1 for pkg bind-utils
>> Error: missing dep: libbind9.so.0 for pkg bind-utils
>> Error: missing dep: libdns.so.20 for pkg bind-utils
>> Error: missing dep: libisc.so.9 for pkg bind-utils
>>
>> Two questions - A) Obviously, how do I resolve this problem and what do I
>> have to install to do so please?
>> B) From memory, there is a command that will identify what packages are
>> needed to fulfill these requirements. But, what is it please, such that I
>> can find out what is missing myself?
>>
>> The 'bind-utils' that is installed is currently 20:9.3.0-1.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Sharon.
>
> According to this link
>
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1565828/com/bind-libs-9.3.0-1.i386.rpm.html
> the missing dependency files should be in the bind-libs package. You
> could be running into the yum bug reported by Axel Thimms on this
> list. You may need to update yum. Or the packaging was defective and
> the files were not included. To verify that the package is not broken
> you can download the package and use rpm to install it. I would not
> try to use the one in the yum cache. You can, of course, use "yum
> clean packages" and try installing bind-libs again.
>
Thank you Kam for both of your replies.
I solved the problem by using yum to remove bind-utils, and I was then able
to do a full yum update and then reboot to use the new kernel.
Many thanks
Sharon.
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