[Yum] yum critical: <XYZ> was supposed to be installed but is not

[James Antill]

Martin Vogt <vogt at itwm.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> vmw169:/var/lib # yum --version
>   3.2.23
>   Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-37.10.1.x86_64 at 2009-07-29 16:21
>   Built    : http://bugs.opensuse.org at 2009-04-28 16:50
>   Committed: mls at suse.de at 2009-04-27 12:00
>
>   Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-107.25.x86_64 at 2009-07-29 16:20
>   Built    : http://bugs.opensuse.org at 2008-12-03 11:38
>   Committed: cthiel at suse.de at 2007-08-29 12:00

 You are running yum from a source install? Also that version of
yum-metadata-parser is before the update .xml => .sqlite files
fix. This only affects repos. which don't provide .sqlite directly,
but that might well be the case with SuSE ... not sure.
 Does "yum clean metadata" help?

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James Antill -- james at and.org