[Yum] [Update] yum error on fedora 7 x86_64

[Tim Lauridsen]

Gery wrote:
> I installed whole system from the beginning and did `yum -y update' also.
> After reboot while doing `yum -y update' again getting follow error:
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kdebindings.i386 0:3.5.7-1.fc7.1 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DCOP) for package: kdesdk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 135, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 540, 
> in buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 885, 
> in resolveDeps
>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep, 
> prcoformat_need)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 334, 
> in _processReq
>     requirementTuple, errormsgs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 469, 
> in _requiringFromInstalled
>     return self._requiringFromTransaction(reqpkg, requirement, errorlist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 574, 
> in _requiringFromTransaction
>     reqpkg = self.tsInfo.matchNaevr(name=name, ver=version, 
> rel=release)[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> [Update]
> Current yum version is yum-3.2.2-1.fc7
> Follows yum command
> rpm -qa 'kdesdk'
> gives list with 2 identical entries: kdesdk-3.5.7-7.fc7
> Running
> rpm -e kdesdk-3.5.7-7.fc7
> gives error message:
> error: "kdesdk-3.5.7-7.fc7" specifies multilple packages
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try 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' ( package-clean up is included in 
yum-utils)

Tim