[Yum] Yum issues on FC3, 64-bit (multilib?) box

Steve Listopad steve.listopad at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 22:54:26 UTC 2005


Seth,

That did the trick! Thanks for helping me out. I appreciate it.

Steve

On 6/13/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > When I do 'yum remove perl', I get:
> >
> > --> Processing Dependency: perl(vars) for package: automake17
> > --> Processing Dependency: perl(Fcntl) for package: perl-libwww-perl
> > --> Processing Dependency: perl(vars) for package:
> > perl-XML-LibXML-Common
> > --> Processing Dependency: perl(Cwd) for package: perl-RPM2
> > --> Processing Dependency: perl >= 0:5.000 for package: kdelibs
> >
> > And so on and so on seemingly forever. Since perl is so integral to
> > my box, I'm a little spooked about removing it and then re-installing
> > it; I certainly do not want to uninstall all of the packages that
> > depend on perl.
> >
> > Advice?
> >
> > And, just for my knowledge, are these issues a problem with yum or a
> > problem with FC3/multilib?
> 
> FC3 - the perl.i386 was a mistake in the FC3 updates tree.
> 
> 'yum remove perl.i386' is the fix for this problem.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 


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steve
steve.listopad at gmail.com
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