Dependancies..

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Jul 15 22:34:53 UTC 2005


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Ted Gervais wrote:
>> I am using YUM to bring my latest fc4 installation up to date. I notice
>> a need for dependencies as I go along and have been working around them
>> until now.
>> 
>> Below is an example of a shortage.  I thought Fedora would go off and
>> get the needed dependancies.  I see not. Seems to be working more like
>> Slackware now rather than Redhat??
>> 
>> Anyway - should fedora have picked up these depenancies?  And if not
>> where do I get this missing file?  Maybe Redhat has a place to get them,
>> or maybe you guys know of a better place.
>> 
>> And thoughts please?
>> 
>> 
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>> ---> Package xemacs-sumo.noarch 0:20050505-4.1 set to be updated
>> --> Running transaction check
>> --> Processing Dependency: apel-xemacs >= 10.5 for package: wl-xemacs
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Missing Dependency: apel-xemacs >= 10.5 is needed by package
>> wl-xemacs
>
> This was an upgrade from FC3, right?  Those are FC3 packages and aren't
> present in FC4 (in fact, there are no "*xemacs*" packages in FC4).
> Remove them and whatever depends on them.  Here's a quick script:
>
> # rpm -ev w3m-el-xemacs-1.4.3-2 xemacs-el-21.4.17-0.FC3 \
> wl-xemacs-2.10.1-4 apel-xemacs-10.6-5 xemacs-sumo-el-20040818-2 \
> xemacs-common-21.4.17-0.FC3 flim-xemacs-1.14.7-1 ddskk-xemacs-12.2.0-4 \
> xemacs-nox-21.4.17-0.FC3 xemacs-21.4.17-0.FC3 xemacs-sumo-20040818-2 \
> xemacs-info-21.4.17-0.FC3 xemacs-sumo-info-20040818-2 mew-xemacs-3.3-4

Or install them from Extras.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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