missing dependency php

[Kam Leo]

On Apr 3, 2005 8:55 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> Let's keep this on list - it wasn't my problem, and I see no reason for
> you to send this to me privately.
> 
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:26 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2005 7:18 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 19:03 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > > On Apr 3, 2005 5:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:15 -0700, kate wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org is needed by
> > > > > > package openoffice.org-i18n
> > > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: system-config-printer is
> > > > > > needed by package system-config-printer-gui
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll try the same syntax for oppenoffice.org and
> > > > > > system-config...
> > >
> > > >
> > > > You might consider installing a GUI based package manager such as
> > > > smart or synaptic (requires apt). The GUI will provide faster feedback
> > > > for all install packages as well as packages you plan to install.  You
> > > > can get these from the DAG repo.
> > > ----
> > > she's got a problem with multiple versions of the same packages.
> > >
> > > I know that installing apt pointing to an entirely different repository
> > > isn't going to help this problem.
> >
> > Apt need not point to exotic repositories.  Many Fedora Core mirrors
> > are apt enabled.  Apt has the advantage over yum in that you can use
> > "apt-get check" to check for broken dependencies.
> >
> > Synaptic provides a GUI for apt. Using synaptic she can see the
> > dependency issues right away, evaluate the recommended changes, and
> > decide on her course of action.
> >
> > >
> > > I don't know how smart would react to it and thus, I would never suggest
> > > this to her as a solution.
> > >
> > > If you 'know' that smart can fix this problem - then by all means, let
> > > us know.
> > >
> > > If you don't know that smart can fix this problem, would you suggest
> > > that your advice give above might not be the proper advice to give to
> > > her?
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Smart Program Manager, http://smartpm.org , will definitely fix her
> > problem.  It is in beta (currently at 0.30).  Smart is very good at
> > resolving dependencies ( in my opinion much better than apt or yum )
> > and from the GUI, smart-gui, will allow you to do on-the-spot
> > up/downgrade of packages as necessary to fix dependencies.
> >
> > The biggest compliant that I have with the smart is that you really
> > need a reasonably fast processor with more than 256 MB memory;
> > otherwise, you wait a long time for the program to update and itterate
> > through all of the enable repositories' meta data.
> >
> > You can get apt, synaptic, smart, smart-update, and smart-gui from Dag
> > Wieers site: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/
> ----
> I know apt/yum/up2date and smart
> 
> Once again, her problem is that she has multiple versions of the same
> packages - not sure why I have to keep repeating this.
> 
> Her problem is that she cannot solve dependency issues because there are
> multiple versions of the same package - in this case openoffice, system-
> config-printer and previously, it was php which we solved. Obviously,
> yum would be able to solve & install dependent packages if this problem
> didn't exist and the addition of another overlay program like apt is
> going to have the same problem. This isn't a yum problem - this is a
> problem with the base of rpm packages that are already installed on this
> system.
> 
> I know that apt/yum/up2date cannot solve the problem of having multiple
> versions of the same packages and have had her resort to manually
> removing them with rpm -e --allmatches NAMES_OF_PACKAGES. I don't have a
> situation like this where I can test how smart would handle it and have
> no systems that I am willing to hose to find out.
> 
> If you have a better idea, by all means express it.
> 
> Craig
> 

Strange? I certainly did not mean to send it to you only.  I thought I
hit the proper reply button in gmail.