Python Issue
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Nov 17 03:00:20 UTC 2006
At 7:01 PM -0700 11/16/06, Frank Tanner III wrote:
>I am having an odd Python issue when trying to run a yum update. I get
>the following message:
...
>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>Error: python-devel conflicts with python < 2.4.4-1.fc6
>
>When I do a query as to what python packages I have installed I get the
>following:
...
>python-2.4.3-18.fc6
...
>python-2.4.4-1.fc6
...
>If you notice both Python 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 are loaded The update is for
>updating python-devel to 2.4.4, however, it won't let me. I have not
>done any oddball upgrades and have let yum do all of my updates. When I
>try to un-install the 2.4.3 version, of course, I get all sorts of error
>message.
>
>How can I fix this? Any assistance that you can give me would be
>greatly appreciated.
Dang. I had this issue during my upgrading FC5 to FC6 the past couple of
days, and can't find what I did exactly, as I also had other issues.
As part of upgrading, I found that my RPM database was corrupt (it crashed
on me) and I rebuilt it, and then did the upgrade. Hmm, the double python
may have been before the upgrade. You might try saving the RPM database
files (cp /var/lib/rpm .) and rebuilding it (rpm --rebuilddb). Maybe the
old Python will go away.
"rpm -V python-2.4.3-18.fc6" and see if it seems intact. If it is just a
vestige, "rpm -e --justdb python-2.4.3-18.fc6", though if the RPM database
is corrupt it may blow up then (make a copy first). If it is all there,
try removing it normally with "rpm -e python-2.4.3-18.fc6". You could even
try removing all Pythons and then re-installing the newer one, but you'll
want to have the new RPM on hand as yum needs Python to work (RPM does not).
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