noobie up2date question
 

Can anyone tell me why this happens? I would think that installing a package on a product that I actually pay for would work... This works fine with yum in FC5, what am I doing wrong here in RHEL that it can't resolve deps?

TIA :newbie:



Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name Version Rel
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gaim 1.5.0 12.el4 i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libnspr4.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libnss3.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libnss3.so(NSS_3.2)
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libnss3.so(NSS_3.3)
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libplc4.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libplds4.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libsmime3.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libsoftokn3.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libssl3.so
gaim 1.5.0-12.el4 requires libssl3.so(NSS_3.2)


The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Package Required by
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You need to also install/update seamonkey-nss and seamonkey-nspr, so try something like;

up2date update gaim seamonkey seamonkey-nss seamonkey-nspr

Thank you, that worked.

I find it kind of crazy that using the 'yum install gaim' command in redhats FREE (FC5) distro can figure out that it needs the packages installed on it's own.. but RHEL cannot?


Thanks again!

First, glad you got the problem resolved.

FYI: from man up2date;

--solvedeps=<dependencies>
Queries the RHN servers to resolve the comma separated
list of dependencies. Essentially the same as --whatpro-
vides except it will also download and install the pack-
ages that are needed to resolve the dependencies.



And yes I do agree that yum is better then up2date (at least you do not need gnome to have a GUI interface).