[Yum] updating packages with yum

Jeff Sheltren sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Tue Sep 13 20:42:14 UTC 2005


Glen Vickers said:
> I am trying to get an antiviral program on my linux box.  When I go to
> install it gives me dependency errors.  I do the yum update on any of
> these
> packages and yum tells me that they are installed and up to date.  However
> if I do a web search or look for the release that the program is looking
> for
> (in this case clamav) there is newer releases out there.  I have even
> found
> the packages I need at download.redhat.com in their distro ftp site.  So
> how
> can I get yum to update all packages on my box like it's supposed to?  I
> have tried 2 different yum.conf files that I have.  Ones from LSU and the
> other was with the linux RH3 distro right off the CD.
>

Which OS are you running, and from what repository are you trying to
install clamav?  It sounds like you're running an older version of
Fedora/RedHat which doesn't have the needed dependencies for the build of
clamav you are trying to use.  Either try rebuilding clamav from a source
rpm, or perhaps upgrade your OS to something newer...

-Jeff



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