Re: Issue updating due to package conflicts

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 13:09 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:04:05 -0500
> Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > Trey Sizemore (trey fastmail fm) said: 
> > > I'm running FC4-test and trying to update with 'yum update' fails
> > > due to package conflicts, namely:
> > > kudzu needs kernel <2.6.13
> > > initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12
> > > 
> > > I'm running kernel 2.6.13-1.1629_FC5.  Is there a way to proceed
> > > without rolling the kernel back?
> > 
> > The printout from yum is backwards - they need newer kernels. Remove
> > some of your older ones.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  'yum list installed kernel' shows three.  What is the syntax
> to remove the 2 I need to take out?
> 

yum remove kernel-ver-rel

release ver-rel with the version and release, obviously.

-sv