--=-SPNuXOIKYFGnw2aMh+La Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 03:52, Geoff Kozens wrote: > I ran the -d 5 flag and you were correct. There was a dependency loop. > I guess this brings up a couple of questions. >=20 > 1) how do I determine which item is creating the dependency loop? > 2) how can I eliminate the loop so that Yum can run an initial update? >=20 > I did run #yum update <pkgname> for a number of packages but this did bec= ome > tedious. > (although way better than where I started!!) > I ran yum update <pkgname> ...<pkgname> and this ran fine also. >=20 > I have tried to run the following (please excuse my ignorance here as I a= m > new to Linux) > I tried to add the shared object to my path (PATH) and my library path > (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and still it yielded the same > result. What am I doing wrong? > OS =3D Red Hat 7.2 >=20 >=20 > #[root@rhl_1 root]# yum update rpm > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Master Site > Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > package gnorpm needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package kdeadmin needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-python needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-build needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package kdeadmin needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-build needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package gnorpm needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package kdeadmin needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-python needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-build needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package gnorpm needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package kdeadmin needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-python needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) > package rpm-build needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) >=20 ok I'm confused: you're running Red Hat Linux 7.2 but you're using the ASPLinux 7.2 repositories? That seems like a bad call. What does your yum.conf look like? what does this command return: rpm -q rpm -sv --=-SPNuXOIKYFGnw2aMh+La Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+GuUc1Aj3x2mIbMcRAtGAAKCpeSluRfUGP3XrVi+MEotA4LSrugCeON8w OIVh8UGXi3DpbYmKa0bxkng= =Mp7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SPNuXOIKYFGnw2aMh+La--