Re: laptop update issue

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:20:52 -0600
> theatre sasktel net (Frank Cox) wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to run "yum update" on a F8 laptop that hasn't been
> > updated for a few months.
> >
> > It goes through all of the motions, downloads all of the updates,
> > then I get this:
> >
> > QUOTE:
> > Transaction Summary
> > =============================================================================
> > Install     17 Package(s)         
> > Update     313 Package(s)         
> > Remove       1 Package(s)         
> >
> > Total download size: 726 M
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Downloading Packages:
> > Running rpm_check_debug
> > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> > Package NetworkManager needs NetworkManager-glib =
> > 1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8, this is not available. Package
> > NetworkManager needs NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8,
> > this is not available. Complete! END OF QUOTE
>
> NetworkManager in F8 gold release was multiarch. Then in an update it
> became non multi-arch. You have a x86_64 system, right? 
>
> Do: 
>
> yum remove NetworkManager.i386
>
> and it should remove a few i386 packages and allow your update to
> complete after that. 
While I don't have this particular problem, thanks for the hint. I've 
seen similar before, which I solved by removing and reinstalling the 
whole package, now I know one reason why this might be happening.

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