Yum update complains that four XFree86 files are needed but not available. However, when I did a grep with my rpm -qa, all the 'missing' files are actually installed (as stated by rpm -qa)

How should I go about troubleshooting this dependency issue or any dependency issue in general?

Thanks

OUTPUT:

[root@test etc]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
Server: Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
..Package XFree86 needs XFree86-xfs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86 needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86-twm needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86-devel needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.

[root@test etc]# rpm -qa |grep -i xfree86
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-45.0.1

if i were you, i wouldnt trust such an application to install important things such as X which have many many many dependency's

if it made a mistake, it could break every non command line program on your box.

install X yourself.

Anyway, it seems that YUM is complaining about the files headers not being available on the yum server.... read 'man yum' there is a configureation file with yum servers in it, look for a yum server which has the X stuff on it, and add its url to that config file.

Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers <------ (1)
Resolving dependencies
..Package XFree86 needs XFree86-xfs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86 needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86-twm needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
Package XFree86-devel needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.

It seems that the headers have been downloaded successfully from (1) above(I might be wrong) before proceeding on to resolve the dependencies.

As for the needed XFree86-xfs and XFree86-libs, this is what I have from my queries:

[root@test fedora-us-1]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86-libs
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-45.0.1
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-45.0.1
[root@test fedora-us-1]# rpm -qa |grep XFree86-xfs
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-45.0.1

Seem to be already installed on my system?

Thanks.