FC11 missing dependencies on a new install

[Robert Moskowitz]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:41 -0400, Robert wrote:
>
>   
>> I have just completed a new install on my ASUS ee 701 and now am trying 
>> to do a yum update.  I am hitting some missing dependencies.  I will TRY 
>> and get them all here, reading from one screen and typing here...
>>
>> python-nose by numpy
>> kasumi by ibus-anthy
>> python-enchant by ibus-pinyin
>> jline by rhino
>>
>> yum suggests I use 0--skip-broken 'to work around the problem'
>>
>> Recommendations please?
>>     
>
> Unusual with a fresh install.
> Let me recommend a few things:
>
> 1) Cut'n'paste or attach the full Yum output. Don't truncate it.
>   

Easier said than done. I will have to set up to log in with SSH to get 
any output to cut n paste here.

So first I am doing updates in pieces, to get the list down to a 
manageable shot.

> 2) Show output of "yum repolist".
>
> 3) The most recent list of unresolved dependencies in Fedora 11
> with updates and updates-testing is this:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00782.html
>
> Sometimes packagers create additional missing dependencies (not covered by
> the report linked above) when they create a dependency between packages in
> the "updates" repo and related updates still sitting in the "updates-testing"
> repo.
>
> The dependency problems you refer to have not appeared in any reports
> recently (not either when disabling the updates-testing repo).
>
> 4) For each package you get missing dependencies, post the following
> details:
>
>   rpm --query PACKAGENAME        (e.g. rpm --query numpy)
>   yum list PACKAGENAME
> plus:
>   yum list NAME_OF_MISSING_PACKAGE    (e.g. yum list python-nose)
>
> 5) If you can "yum install yum-utils", look for the tools included in
> it, such as "package-cleanup". Try "package-cleanup --dupes" (and
> if it finds duplicate packages "package-cleanup --cleandupes) and
> "package-cleanup --problems".
>
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