I'm getting a yum dependency problem when running "yum update" and I'm not sure how to solve it. I'd be very grateful for advice.
Some exerpts from the error messages are: ------------------------------- Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-131.el6_4.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Removing: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-131.el6_4.x86_64 (@updates) perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-131.el6_4 Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge- extras) Not found Available: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-129.el6.x86_64 (base) perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-129.el6 Available: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-130.el6_4.x86_64 (updates) perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-130.el6_4 ------------------------------- Packages skipped because of dependency problems: perl-Class-Inspector-1.24-4.el6.noarch from base 1:perl-FCGI-0.71-4.el6.x86_64 from epel perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras perl-SOAP-Lite-0.712-3.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras perl-Task-Weaken-1.03-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras perl-libwww-perl-5.837-2.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is something else and multilib version checking is just pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.: 1. You have an upgrade for perl-libwww-perl which is missing some dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to solve this by installing an older version of perl-libwww-perl of the different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with --exclude perl-libwww-perl.otherarch ... this should give you an error message showing the root cause of the problem. 2. You have multiple architectures of perl-libwww-perl installed, but yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures. If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you can remove the one with the missing update and everything will work. 3. You have duplicate versions of perl-libwww-perl installed already. You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors. ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing much more problems). Protected multilib versions: perl-libwww-perl-5.837-1.el6.rfx.noarch != perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest ------------------------------- I've been waiting for a few days for the problem to solve itself, but it doesn't look as though it is going to. I understand the problem, but not the best way to deal with it. Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org