Re: Having trouble upgrading to latest kernel

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On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 07:07, Ralf Spenneberg wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-02-21 um 12.37 schrieb Bill and/or Chris:
> 
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > >         ppp <= 2.3.15 conflicts with kernel-2.4.18-24.8.0
> > > > 
> > > > As I stated before, the version of ppp that I have is 2.4.1-7.  Any
> > > > ideas?
> Just for the curious, can you do a 
> rpm -q --whatprovides ppp
> 

# rpm -q --whatprovides ppp
ppp-2.4.1-7
ppp-mppe-2.4.0-4

> Anyway, if all version are save you should be able to do a 
> rpm -i --nodeps kernel
> 

Are you sure?  Using --nodeps makes me nervous for something as
important as the kernel.  But if you think it's OK, maybe I'll try it.

> Rebuilding the database might help, too (did you do it yet? it does not
> hurt!)
> rpm --rebuilddb
> 

I just tried it, and it does not seem to help.

> If everything fails and you still are curious and not annoyed you might
> want to post on the RedHat RPM list (see https://listman.redhat.com).
> Otherwise remove ppp and install the kernel and ppp afterwards. You
> might have to remove some additional packages, but they are pulled in
> again by up2date ppp later on.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralf
> > > 
> > > Can you make an 'rpm -q ppp'?  If nothing helps, you can also uninstall
> > > ppp (and what depends on it), install the kernel, then reinstall the
> > > erased packages.
> > > 
> > > Michael
> > 
> > rpm -q ppp returns ppp-2.4.1-7.  I had actually thought about
> > uninstalling ppp, but I was wondering if there was another way.
> > 
> > --Bill
> > 
> > 
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