Re: FC5 - yum update problems - solution in sight.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:31 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6 is needed by package vcdimager
> 
> > Where are the dependencies for vcdimager supposed to come from?
> 
> The libcdio package.  It seems that you have an old vcdimager installed 
> and it is not set to get updated.  However libcdio has moved up to 
> libcdio.so.7, so now the old version of the library demanded by your old 
> vcdimager will be missing if the update completes.
> 
> > Going further I ran:
> > yum --exclude="xine*" --exclude="vcdimager" update
> 
> The problem for vcdimager anyway is not that it is getting updated, but 
> that libs it relies on are getting updated and it isn't.  AFAICT.  So 
> telling it not to update vcdimager had no effect.
> 
> Personally I would
> 
> rpm -e vcdimager xine
> 
> or
> 
> yum remove vcdimager xine
> 
> and try again.
> 
> -Andy
> 
Thanks. I had an epiphany along similar lines and got it to work.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>