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06-15-2009, 07:05 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Lebanon
Distribution: RHEL 5/CentOS 5/Debian Lenny/(K)Ubuntu Is Dead/Mandriva 10.1
Posts: 676
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CentOS 5 missing dependency
Hi
I am trying to install pidgin, I did add the repo to CentOS 5. I got some dependency errors that I solved through google.
However, now I am stuck with this dependency error:
Error: Missing Dependency: libnssutil3.so is needed by package libpurple
I cant find it online.
Please help
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06-15-2009, 07:46 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
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What repo did you add? Pidgin is in updates by the look of things, and a simple "yum install pidgin" should have been all you needed.
Running a test install on CentOS 5.3 doesn't throw up any unresolved dependencies.
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06-15-2009, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Scientific Linux, Debian, Fedora
Posts: 3,935
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It's (usually) not a good idea / not necessary to download individual packages to meet dependencies. That's what your repositories are for.
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