I'm getting a yum dependency problem when running "yum update"
and I'm not sure how to solve it.
I'd be very grateful for advice.
Some exerpts from the error messages are:
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Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-131.el6_4.x86_64 (@updates)
Requires: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib
Removing: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-131.el6_4.x86_64 (@updates)
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-131.el6_4
Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-
extras)
Not found
Available: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-129.el6.x86_64 (base)
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-129.el6
Available: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-130.el6_4.x86_64 (updates)
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-130.el6_4
-------------------------------
Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
perl-Class-Inspector-1.24-4.el6.noarch from base
1:perl-FCGI-0.71-4.el6.x86_64 from epel
perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras
perl-SOAP-Lite-0.712-3.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras
perl-Task-Weaken-1.03-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras
perl-libwww-perl-5.837-2.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
1. You have an upgrade for perl-libwww-perl which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of perl-libwww-perl of
the
different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
--exclude perl-libwww-perl.otherarch ... this should give you an
error
message showing the root cause of the problem.
2. You have multiple architectures of perl-libwww-perl installed,
but
yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
can remove the one with the missing update and everything
will work.
3. You have duplicate versions of perl-libwww-perl installed
already.
You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
much more problems).
Protected multilib versions: perl-libwww-perl-5.837-1.el6.rfx.noarch
!= perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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I've been waiting for a few days for the problem to solve itself,
but it doesn't look as though it is going to.
I understand the problem, but not the best way to deal with it.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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