[Yum] Help with running first time

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 03:52, Geoff Kozens wrote:
> I ran the -d 5 flag and you were correct.  There was a dependency loop.
> I guess this brings up a couple of questions.
> 
> 1) how do I determine which item is creating the dependency loop?
> 2) how can I eliminate the loop so that Yum can run an initial update?
> 
> I did run #yum update <pkgname> for a number of packages but this did become
> tedious.
> (although way better than where I started!!)
> I ran yum update <pkgname> ...<pkgname> and this ran fine also.
> 
> I have tried to run the following (please excuse my ignorance here as I am
> new to Linux)
> I tried to add the shared object to my path (PATH) and my library path
> (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and still it yielded the same
> result. What am I doing wrong?
> OS = Red Hat 7.2
> 
> 
> #[root at rhl_1 root]# yum update rpm
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Master Site
> Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> package gnorpm needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package kdeadmin needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-python needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-build needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package kdeadmin needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-build needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package gnorpm needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package kdeadmin needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-python needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-build needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package gnorpm needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package kdeadmin needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-python needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> package rpm-build needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided)
> 

ok I'm confused:
you're running Red Hat Linux 7.2 but you're using the ASPLinux 7.2
repositories?

That seems like a bad call.

What does your yum.conf look like?

what does this command return: rpm -q rpm

-sv

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