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Posted on Sunday, 30th August 2009 by Balazs

Yum update fails
I see the question of failed dependencies come up on forums quite a bit. Users post errors like:
Missing Dependency: bind-utils = 9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1 is needed bind-sdb-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1

or
ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi is needed by package ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64

or
httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package [...]

Tags: CentOS, yum
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

Trying to install the IBM JDK 64bit I came across the following error:
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by ibm-java2-x86_64-sdk-5.0-8a.0.x86_64
It turns out that yum has a neat feature to show what package provides a given component:
yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
gave the answer, and
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
took care of installingthe missing package.

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Tags: CentOS 5, red hat 5, RHEL 5, yum
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

After an upgrade to CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 we got the following error:
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
Public key for openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.x86_64.rpm is not installed

It turns out that the key needs to be loaded and yum has not tried to load the key properly. The following manual key loading [...]

Tags: CentOS 5, red hat, RHEL 5, rpm, yum
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