[NTLUG:Discuss] RPM craziness

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Fri Oct 22 16:16:58 CDT 2004


It means a package required to resolve a dependency is not available in the on-line YUM repository.
That has nothing to do with the local RPM database.

Also, where did you get your YUM?
What repositories are you tapping?
Are you sticking with the official Fedora Extras / Fedora Legacy repositories (yes, this is for RHL9)?

Lastly, as I just posted in another response, your not querying RPM  correctly with your wildcard.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:  Wayne Dahl 
Date:  04-10-22 17:07
To:  NTLUG 
Subj:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] RPM craziness

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:49, Rev. wRy wrote:

> On my shrike box:
> 
> [slot0k at suicide rpm]$ rpm -q rpm
> rpm-4.2-0.69
> [slot0k at suicide rpm]$ ls __*
> __db.001  __db.002  __db.003
> 
> So, yeah, I'd say it's normal.
> 
> I want to say that was answered in the bugzilla - I think it had to do
> with gcc versions, but I am not positive.  It very likely could have
> been a bug in rpm as well.

Ok...I've rebuilt the database...and I'm still getting this error to
yum....

[root at newcomputer New]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package kdegraphics-devel needs kdegraphics = 3.1-4, this is not
available.
Package kdegraphics-devel needs kdegraphics = 3.1-5, this is not
available.
Package redhat-config-printer-gui needs redhat-config-printer =
0.6.47-1, this is not available.

A query to rpm for kdegraphics returns the following...

[root at newcomputer New]# rpm -q kdegraphics*
package kdegraphics-3.1-5.i386.rpm is not installed
package kdegraphics-devel-3.1-5.i386.rpm is not installed

Why is this returning what is NOT installed?  I want to know what IS
installed.  Queries to specific packages return the following...

[root at newcomputer New]# rpm -q kdegraphics-3.1-4
kdegraphics-3.1-4
[root at newcomputer New]# rpm -q kdegraphics-devel*
package kdegraphics-devel-3.1-5.i386.rpm is not installed
[root at newcomputer New]# rpm -q kdegraphics-devel-3.1-4
kdegraphics-devel-3.1-4

I'm sure I'm missing something really simple, but it evades me.  Yum
says kdegraphics-3.1-4 is not available...is this different from not
being installed?  According to rpm -q, it looks to be installed.  Is
this  possibly a gcc error?

Thanks again,
-- 
Wayne Dahl
Registered Linux User # 347549
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