Unresolvable chain of dependencies

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 21:44:15 UTC 2005


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:55:42 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    For the last week or so I've had a blinking red exclamation mark on
> > our three machines here. When I try to run the Redhat Updater it
> > eventually comes back and says:
> >
> > There was a package dependency problem. Message was:
> >
> > Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> > mozilla-1.7.6-1.2.2  requires desktop-file-utils >= 0.9
> >
> > Please modify your package selections and try again.
> >
> > This seems to happen whether I choose to update Mozilla or not.
> >
> > 1) Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> There's a thread on fedora-list about it.  The Fedora gang mistakenly
> put FC3's dependency list on the FC2 mozilla RPM.  That's supposed to
> be rectified now but your mirrors may not yet have it.
> 
> > 2) How to fix?
> 
> Wait for your mirror to update or go fetch it specifically off the
> Red Hat Fedora repository.

Thanks Rick. I'll just wait for it to resolve over the next few days, hopefully.

cheers,
Mark




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