Add software - conflicts (what does this mean/what to do?)

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jan 17 18:50:24 UTC 2007


At 5:29 PM +0000 1/17/07, Andrew Wood wrote:
>Hi,
>
>(BTW - Thanks to those who pointed out the need for using 'su -' rather
>than 'su' to use the LVM commands. I managed to extend the disk space
>successfully - hurrah!)
>
>I'm trying to add development tools and libraries to FC6.  I'm using the
>graphical front end.  After choosing the extra software and hitting
>apply then I'm presented with: 'Error resolving dependencies - unable to
>resolve dependencies for some package s selected for installation'. The
>details show: 'python-devel conflicts with python < 2.4.4-1.fc6'
>
>If I remove the python-devel library from the Development Libraries then
>this doesn't help.
>
>Any suggestions what's happening?

Well, it looks like Python is not up to date.  What does 'rpm -q python' say?
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