I have a minimal installation of CentOS, and I wanted to then install X Windows and the GNOME desktop. I then tried the following, which failed on a dependency:
$ yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"
--> Running transaction check ---> Package nautilus-sendto.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 for package: nautilus-sendto ---> Package opensp.i386 0:1.5.2-4 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-sendto
So GNOME appears to be missing some dependencies in the yum repository. I finally gave up and installed KDE, which installed flawlessly:
$ yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
I assume this is a bug with the GNOME packages (required dependency not found). Is this a CentOS issue, or an "upstream" issue?
Thanks, Kenneth
Kenneth Burgener wrote:
I have a minimal installation of CentOS, and I wanted to then install X Windows and the GNOME desktop. I then tried the following, which failed on a dependency:
$ yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"
--> Running transaction check ---> Package nautilus-sendto.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 for package: nautilus-sendto ---> Package opensp.i386 0:1.5.2-4 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-sendto
I forgot to note:
I am running CentOS 5.2
$ uname -a Linux edirectory 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:30:27 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ yum whatprovides libgaim.so.0 No Matches found
$ yum -y update No Packages marked for Update
Kenneth
Kenneth Burgener wrote:
Error: Missing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-sendto
I assume this is a bug with the GNOME packages (required dependency not found). Is this a CentOS issue, or an "upstream" issue?
Upstream issue since 5.0 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250403 has more information.
For now do a yum --exclude=nautilus-sendto groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
This will hopefully be fixed in 5.3
Ralph