On Fri, 2005-28-10 at 21:53 -0700, kingshizzle wrote: > Hello Yum Folks, > Yum noob here on Fedora Core 4. Any help would be much appreciated. > > Summary -- Yum bailing due to missing dependencies required by excluded > packages! > > I did the following: > > 1) Did >sudo yum update > 2) Saw lots of openoffice language packs I didn't want, answered 'N' to > the OK? question. > 3) Added exlude=openoffice.org-langpack* to my yum.conf > 4) Did >sudo yum update > > Tried exclude on the command line too. Sample output is below. > > $ sudo yum update --exclude=openoffice.org-langpack* All the langpacks already installed won't let you upgrade the core, since they require the older version, and you're excluding the updates for newer langpacks. To fix: yum erase openoffice.org-langpack* Regards, --icon