So I forgot to install the development tools on my fresh install of FC3...which means that I can't compile anything!

So I go into "add/remove applications" and select "development tools" to add. It then comes up and tells me "The following package cannot be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until it is installed." The package it is referring to is "libxml2" and it says it is required by ('libxml2-python', '2.6.16', '3') .

The problem is, whenever I try to install libxml it says that it's already installed. I've tried forcing the install, but that didn't help either.

I think the problem is that I ran up2date as soon as it was installed and it updated the libxml2 and libxml2-python but "forgot to tell" the system that it had been updated...if that makes any sense at all.

Any ideas? Thanks

-teet

If this is freshly installed and you've never done any customisation .. then I guess another fresh install is the best rather than scratching your head trying to fix this sometime like this rpm dependency problems ...

I doubt that is what happened.
You can try using yum to install the development tools you need.
Grab the src.rpm for evolution and try to build it. Then use yum to install everthing it says you are missing to build it - that should then pull in just about all the devel tools.

I am having this very same problem, however I'm still too new to Linux to understand this solution:

Can you provide some more guidance?

Another solution to use if you just need a few packages from the install disks is to find them on the disks, copy them to your HD then
open terminal and type

su (switches to root user)
password (enter your root password)
cd dir ("dir" being the directory where you put the rpm package)
rpm -ivh Name_of_the-rpm.rpm ("rpm -ivh" the name of the .rpm you are trying to install)

If you only have a few rpm packages that will work. If you have scores of them then it may get old to do each one.

If you are real new to linux and your distro then re-install it. It'll help you get what is going on. I installed Mandrake 4 times before I got it. I installed Fedora 5 times before it sunk in. Debian............don't ask.

Sorry. I forgot to ever reply back and update my situation.

I ended up reinstalling...it was going to be more trouble to actually fix the problem.

I've reinstalled different versions of linux around 15 times or so (in span of about 1 year on 2 different computers). Live and learn I guess

-teet

I have reinstalled a few times, mostly to modify the way I partitioned my disks, but it seems such a "windowsy" way to fix this sort of problem, that I resisted doing it.

But I did find a solution searching usenet that worked perfectly:

In terminal, ran:
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum groupinstall "X Software Development"
(which loaded some additional libraries that a c script I was trying to compile required).

HTH anyone still interested.

Thanks.