On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:32 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > Hi List. > > I have been off line for nearly two weeks due to my broad band > > connection failing. As soon as I got my connection up I went to the > > Software updater to check for any up dates and as expected it gave me a > > long list. First I selected all the packages but kept getting error > > messages complaining about unresolved dependencies. I then selected each > > package one at a time and get the same unresolved dependencies message > > for each package (I have tried the first 12 packages so far). I thought > > the package updater was supposed to sort out the dependencies > > automatically? Any ideas whats wrong? > > john > > > > > > You might try to open a root terminal and run yum clean all. Maybe there > are old headers left over since the time you last updated that it is > using as reference to packages. > > After cleaning up the headers, you might as well try running yum update > from the CLI since you are already there. You will probably get more > descriptive error outputs from the output of yum if it still fails. > > Jim > > -- > If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time > to do it over? > After posting my last email I had a quick look at "man yum" and then tried yum update after su-ing. It did update most but failed on a lot of others. will try your clean all command
