[CentOS] yum update troubles

Mon Jan 3 20:46:49 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Matt wrote:
> Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this:
>
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for
> package: perl-IO-Compress
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 is needed
> by package perl-IO-Compress
>
> I try to uninstall perl-IO-Compress but something like 91 packages
> depend on it.  Any ideas?

You might start out by
 > yum clean all
and retrying.

           mark