Failed dependencies error upon downloading yum

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Aug 16 06:07:55 UTC 2004


On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:01:26 -0400, DBS wrote:

> Upon executing the below command to install yum onto a Red Hat 8 box, from
> the
> legacy instructions at http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh8.php
> 
> rpm -Uvh
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/legacy-utils/i386/rpm-4.1.1-1.8x
> .i386.rpm \
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/legacy-utils/i386/rpm-build-4.1.
> 1-1.8x.i386.rpm \
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/legacy-utils/i386/rpm-devel-4.1.
> 1-1.8x.i386.rpm \
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/legacy-utils/i386/rpm-python-4.1
> .1-1.8x.i386.rpm \
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/legacy-utils/i386/popt-1.7.1-1.8
> x.i386.rpm \
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/updates/i386/gnupg-1.0.7-14.i386
> .rpm
> 
> I'm getting the below error message about failed dependencies:
> 
> warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.yfIxSM: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 731002fa
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         patch >= 2.5 is needed by rpm-build-4.1.1-1.8x

Then install the "patch" package, too. It's on your installation media
or your favourite mirror of Red Hat Linux 8.0.





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