[CentOS] yum update failed

Fri Aug 25 12:44:40 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 08:21 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am getting the following error on yum update.
> What do I do??? I have the ATI display driver package installed.
> ---------------------------------------------
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> <snip>

> [root at geisjcompaq src]# rpm -e xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20
> error: "xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20" specifies multiple packages
> [root at geisjcompaq src]#

CentOS uses an excellent tool called yum that handles dependencies for
you. I didn't let this complete for obviour reasons, but give something
similar to this a try.

# yum erase xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL\*
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
--> Processing Dependency: libGLU.so.1 for package: xorg-x11-tools
--> Processing Dependency: libGL.so.1 for package: gstreamer-plugins
--> Processing Dependency: libGLU.so.1 for package: freeglut
--> Processing Dependency: libGLU.so.1 for package: xscreensaver
<snip a *TON* more of these>
---> Package xscreensaver.i386 1:4.18-5.rhel4.10 set to be erased
---> Package xorg-x11.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37 set to be erased
---> Package freeglut.i386 0:2.2.0-14 set to be erased
---> Package gstreamer-plugins.i386 0:0.8.5-1.EL.0 set to be erased
<and a *ton* of these too>
=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL   i386    6.8.2-1.EL.13.37  installed         403 k
 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU  i386    6.8.2-1.EL.13.37  installed         470 k
Removing for dependencies:
 GConf2                i386       2.8.1-1        installed         3.9 M
 NetworkManager-gnome  i386       0.3.1-3        installed         137 k
 SDL                   i386       1.2.7-8        installed         424 k
 VFlib2                i386     2.25.6-25        installed         556 k
<and more tons>

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove     138 Package(s)
Total download size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

HTH
-- 
Bill
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