yum: "gocr dependency missing"

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Mar 5 23:28:47 UTC 2008


Aldo Foot wrote:
> I was updating my system using my local yum repo, and everything
> was ok except for the e2fsprogs updates; yum complained "gocr
> dependency missing"
> and it would bail out.
> So in my local repo I disabled the Base part of it and left the
> Updates enabled and then
> selected the actual Fedora Base repo. With this the gocr dependency
> was installed.
> The same thing happened for several kdegraphics packages.
> 
> Why did the gocr needed the "real" F8 Base package repository to install?
> 

Probably because starting with F8, the repo on the install disk is not
the complete base repo.  It only contains what you need to do the
install.  After you've installed, its assumed you will switch over to
the complete repos.

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