Yum & Clamav = error, Synaptic = ok

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:30:32 +0000, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:

> this efternoon yum update gave the following dependency issues:
> 
> Running transaction check
> - --> Processing Dependency: libclamav.so.1 for package: clamav-milter
> - --> Processing Dependency: clamav-lib= 0.85.1-4.fc3 for package:
> clamav-devel
> - --> Processing Dependency: libclamav.so.1 for package: clamd
> - --> Processing Dependency: clamav= 0.85.1-1.1.fc3.rf for package: clamd
> - --> Processing Dependency: clamav-lib= 0.85.1-4.fc3 for package: clamav
> - --> Processing Dependency: data(clamav) for package: clamav
> - --> Processing Dependency: libclamav.so.1 for package: clamav
> - --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> - --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> - ---> Downloading header for clamav-lib to pack into transaction set.
> clamav-lib-0.85.1-4.fc3.i 100% |=========================|  12 kB    00:00
> - ---> Package clamav-lib.i386 0:0.85.1-4.fc3 set to be installed
> - ---> Downloading header for clamav-data to pack into transaction set.
> clamav-data-0.85.1-4.fc3. 100% |=========================|  12 kB    00:00
> - ---> Package clamav-data.i386 0:0.85.1-4.fc3 set to be installed
> - --> Running transaction check
> - --> Processing Dependency: clamav= 0.85.1-1.1.fc3.rf for package: clamd
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^
                                                  (!)
> - --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.1 is needed by package clamav-milter
> Error: Missing Dependency: clamav is needed by package clamd

This is a package conflict between Fedora Extras' clamav and rpmforge's
clamav. They are packaged differently and don't like eachother.

> However, the synaptic update worked perfectly.

Synaptic uses apt-rpm, not yum. So, most likely you have configured
different repositories for apt.

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