Yum update problems: fixed Livna, now what?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Nov 7 16:51:05 UTC 2005


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 11/7/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 06/11/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>After several days of yum problems (no livna), I switched to the
>>>failovermethod=priority mirror method, and yum starts normally.
>>>However, it bombs out with:
>>>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>Error: Missing Dependency: dbus-qt = 0.33-3.1.fc4.kde is needed by
>>>package dbus-devel
>>>
>>>When can I get that? If I just download it as an rpm (I haven't
>>>checked from where yet), will that screw anything up?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Dotan Cohen
>>>
>>
>>http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_digital_camera.html
>>
>> What I did was to rpm -e dbus-devel and then everything worked just fine.
>>Apparently, dbus-devel was not needed by anythng on my system, although it
>>must have been at one time, otherwise I would never have installed it in the
>>first place.
>>
> 
> 
> Isn't there a way to see what depends on something before I -e it? I
> just did a man rpm but didn't see an option for checking. How is that
> done?

A simple way of doing this is just to run the "rpm -e" as a non-root 
user. If there are dependency issues, rpm will tell you. If not, the 
remove will fail because you're not root.

Paul.




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