[Yum] Small problem

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Mar 31 00:08:40 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:34 -0600, David Mooney wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was running a yum update on a server and this is what I got at the end 
> of the update:
> Finding obsoleted packages
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package pine needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.
> 
> I then ran:
> [root at localhost etc]# yum provides libcom_err.so.3
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Extras 1 - i386 - Extra Packages
> Server: Livna 3rd party packages with questionable (in USA) licenses -- 
> use at your own risk
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Looking in available packages for a providing package
> No packages found
> Looking in installed packages for a providing package
> Installed package: krb5-libs.i386 0:1.2.7-14 matches with
>  /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3
> Installed package: krb5-libs.i386 0:1.2.7-14 matches with
>  /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3.0
> Installed package: krb5-libs.i386 0:1.2.7-14 matches with
>  libcom_err.so.3
> 3 results returned
> 
> Then I tried:
> [root at localhost etc]# yum install krb5-libs.i386
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Extras 1 - i386 - Extra Packages
> Server: Livna 3rd party packages with questionable (in USA) licenses -- 
> use at your own risk
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Cannot find a package matching krb5-libs.i386
> No actions to take
> 
> Then I tried this:
> [root at snort etc]# yum install krb5-libs
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Extras 1 - i386 - Extra Packages
> Server: Livna 3rd party packages with questionable (in USA) licenses -- 
> use at your own risk
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package pine needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.
> 
> Any ideas on what is going on here?  I would really appreciate any 
> help.  Thanks in advance.
> 

pine was never in fedora core - the dependency it has, I believe, has
been removed, as well. There are pine packages available for fedora core
from Mike Harris' people.redhat.com page - the full url eludes me.

-sv





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