My Update Applet keeps giving me messages to install an update to a package I do not have installed. To make matters more confusing, when I actually try to install the package it wants to update, there is a problem with the installation.
Any tips on how to resolve this? Is this somehow caused by the repositories I have enabled?
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:02:26 -0700 Kay Schenk wrote:
My Update Applet keeps giving me messages to install an update to a package I do not have installed.
What package?
To make matters more confusing, when I
actually try to install the package it wants to update, there is a problem with the installation.
What problem?
Is this somehow caused by the repositories I have enabled?
Perhaps but it's impossible to say without having more detailed information provided by you.
What repositories do you have enabled?
On 7/1/2015 2:02 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
My Update Applet keeps giving me messages to install an update to a package I do not have installed. To make matters more confusing, when I actually try to install the package it wants to update, there is a problem with the installation.
Any tips on how to resolve this? Is this somehow caused by the repositories I have enabled?
can you run in a shell window,
sudo yum check-update
and paste the output here ?
otherwise we'd just be guessing whats going on.
On 07/01/2015 02:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/1/2015 2:02 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
My Update Applet keeps giving me messages to install an update to a package I do not have installed. To make matters more confusing, when I actually try to install the package it wants to update, there is a problem with the installation.
Any tips on how to resolve this? Is this somehow caused by the repositories I have enabled?
can you run in a shell window,
sudo yum check-updateand paste the output here ?
otherwise we'd just be guessing whats going on.
OK, here ya go --
Obsoleting Packages
perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Base.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates
On 7/1/2015 2:35 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
OK, here ya go --
Obsoleting Packages
perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Base.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates
rpmforge née RepoForge is not being updated much anymore and is no longer a 'good' repository. for an example perl-IO-Compress hasn't been updated since 2012. anyways, perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 is part of base in el6.
I would uninstall any packages you need that are from rpmforge, remove that repo from your repos.d and find equivalent packages in a better supported repository.
this should list any RepoForge packages that are already installed on your system...
rpm -qa |egrep \.rf
On 07/02/2015 03:11 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/1/2015 2:35 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
OK, here ya go --
Obsoleting Packages
perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Base.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates
rpmforge née RepoForge is not being updated much anymore and is no longer a 'good' repository. for an example perl-IO-Compress hasn't been updated since 2012. anyways, perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 is part of base in el6.
I would uninstall any packages you need that are from rpmforge, remove that repo from your repos.d and find equivalent packages in a better supported repository.
this should list any RepoForge packages that are already installed on your system...
rpm -qa |egrep \\.rf
Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository entanglement problem, but I didn't know why. I mean why do I keep getting messages about updating something I don't have installed.
On 7/2/2015 10:20 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository entanglement problem, but I didn't know why. I mean why do I keep getting messages about updating something I don't have installed.
its a broken repository and shouldn't be used. "I know its broken but decided to use it anyways?" maybe that warning should be made stronger.
Am 02.07.2015 um 20:08 schrieb John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com:
On 7/2/2015 10:20 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository entanglement problem, but I didn't know why. I mean why do I keep getting messages about updating something I don't have installed.
Not installed packages are installed to resolve dependencies of packages that will be updated.
its a broken repository and shouldn't be used. "I know its broken but decided to use it anyways?" maybe that warning should be made stronger.
BTW - rfx tagged packages respectively the corresponding repo replaces distro packages.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2010-November/msg00096.html
as Dag wrote: RPMForge is dead.
http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/029506.html
The decision is yours.
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