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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Curious yum problem
From:       "Guillermo Garron" <guillermo.fedora () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-08-31 13:18:22
Message-ID: 865773ce0608310618g386229ecv51cd49fa898c65e5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 8/31/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> I just installed FC-5 on a new disk,
> and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported,
> kdebase required htdig .
>
> On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems
> which I have kept up-to-date.
>
> It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything
> by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc,
> but I am puzzled why this problem arises,
> and interested to know if there is a simple way
> of determining exactly what is looking for what?
> (It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.)
I think i have seen this before,

some dependencies are not resolved by YUM it just inform you do not
have it, but do not fetch it.

What i did in that situations is to *manually* install the required package.

$ yum install htdig
and then
$ yum update

try it.
regards,
Guillermo.

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