[CentOS] strange missing dependency message from daily yum update

Mon Nov 13 22:14:53 UTC 2006
Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net>

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:55:17 +0200
vladislav rusanov <rusanov at openintegra.com> wrote:

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> Richard E Miles wrote:
> > I am getting a missing dependency message for
> > libx264.so.54 is needed by package mplayer. The yum check-update for packages doesn't even show mplayer is to be updated. That library is in /us/bin on my system and when I run the mplayer that I have that's allready installed it runs fine. A ldd on mplayer shows it is referring to the correct /usr/bin/libx264.so.254.so.54.
> > Why is yum failing to do the daily yum update?
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> This is because you are going to update libx264.so.54 with newer
> version, but mplayer requiers exactly this(not newer).
> Try with
> yum -x libx264.so.54 update
> 
> Regards! :)

The option -x is not recogized by yum however if I run sudo yum --exclude 264 update it works and the packages are updated. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

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Richard Miles
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