[Yum] yum - missing dependencies ?

[James Antill]

shashidhar velagandula <shashidhar.velagandula at gmail.com> writes:

> HI ,
>
>       I am trying to run "yum update"  on RHEL5  , but it is showing some
> dependency errors , eventhough those dependency  library files are available
> , it is unable to detect them ,
> Can anyone help to resolve this problem ?
>
> [root at pvfs4 Server]# yum clean all
> -------- ----- --------   -------
>
> [root at pvfs4 Server]# yum update
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "security" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> This system is not registered with RHN.
> RHN support will be disabled.

 This is an old version of yum, you might want to update.

> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> Resolving Dependencies
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package vdt_globus_sdk.i386 0:VDT1.6.1x86_rhas_4-9 set to be updated
> ---> Package curl.i386 0:7.15.5-2.sl4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 for package: curl
> --> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.4 for package: curl
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 is needed by package curl
> Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.4 is needed by package curl

> [root at pvfs4 Server]# ls -l /lib/libcrypt*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  945120 Jul  3 13:00 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1240428 Oct 10  2007 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8b
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 Jul  3 13:10 /lib/libcrypto.so.4 ->
> libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 Jun 11 12:18 /lib/libcrypto.so.6 ->
> libcrypto.so.0.9.8b
[...]
> [root at pvfs4 Server]# ls -l /lib/libssl*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 213600 Jul  3 12:58 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.7a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279308 Oct 10  2007 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8b
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Jul  3 14:52 /lib/libssl.so.4 ->
> libssl.so.0.9.7a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Jul  3 16:15 /lib/libssl.so.6 ->
> libssl.so.0.9.8b

 What does the following command print:

 rpm -qf /lib/libcrypto.so.* /lib/libssl.so.*

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James Antill -- james at and.org