Hello, I have just started using a machine with a fresh Fedora 6 installation. I have confirmed that yum is configured to use the standard set of repositories for this distro. "yum update" fails with the following errors: <snip 3,000+ lines similar to those below> --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) for package: pam --> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: elfutils-libs --> Processing Dependency: libkrb5.so.3()(64bit) for package: openssl --> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: mkinitrd --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package krb5-libs.x86_64 0:1.5-21 set to be updated ---> Package glibc.i386 0:2.5-10.fc6 set to be updated ---> Package elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0:0.127-1.fc6 set to be updated ---> Package rpm-libs.x86_64 0:4.4.2-33.fc6 set to be updated ---> Package popt.x86_64 0:1.10.2-33.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libs = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by package elfutils Error: elfutils-libs conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6 Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit-libs-python Error: Missing Dependency: libxml2 = 2.6.27 is needed by package libxml2-python Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6 Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libelf = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by package elfutils Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.4.2-32 is needed by package rpm-python Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies Error: Package elfutils-libs needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.1), this is not available. Error: Package procps needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2), this is not available. Error: Package libsemanage needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4), this is not available. Error: Package grep needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4), this is not available. Error: Package less needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3), this is not available. <snip 1,000 lines similar to the one above> The command "yum upgrade" fails in similar fashion. For errors such as... "Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit" ...What do I do? I tried "yum install audit-libs" but that generates hundreds of further similar errors. For errors such as... "Error: Package X needs Y, this is not available." ...I understand the essence of the message, i.e. that proceeding with the update would break the existing installation of package X. I understand that a common fix would be to uninstall all the packages that would be broken by the update, proceed with the update, then re-install the uninstalled packages as necessary. However I hesitate to do that since there are over 1,000 packages affected. What am I doing wrong? The machine was set up by an offsite server hosting company who have provided me with an ssh login. Thanks, Eric P.S. Aplogies if this is the second occurrence of this message, a first attempt seemed to fail. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
