Re: Cannot update popt and rpm* packages - second post

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:17 -0400, Shane Dawalt wrote:
>    I am unable to update the popt and rpm* packages under 
> "2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP x86_64".  I am receiving the following 
> message from up2date.
> 
> There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:
> 
> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> rpm-libs  4.2.3-13                       requires libelf.so.1
> rpm-libs  4.2.3-13                       requires libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.0)

This looks like rpm-libs.i386, what type of install did you do?

rpm --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' -q rpm-libs
elfutils-libelf

>  So why does popt and rpm* want libraries that don't exist?  And how 
> can I correct this problem ... or can it be corrected?

Possibly an up2date multilib issue.

Paul