On 9/1/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:01 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > > > > On one of my machines yum hung up while installing the updates and > > > could not be interrupted or killed. I rebooted the machine the next > > > day, but now a 'yum update' reports: > > > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: openssh = 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 is needed by > > > package openssh-askpass-gnome > > > and > > > Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-13_nonptl is needed by package > > > rpm-build > > > > > > even though rpm -q says those version are installed: > > > > > > #rpm -q rpm openssh > > > rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl > > > openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 > > > > > > Now what? > > Maybe you can try > > yum clean all > > so you can start a complete process again. > > I already tried that with no luck. I even did a > yum update up2date > up2date -u > and it complains that it needs the same packages but that they are > already installed... > > It looks like I have duplicates, so maybe an rpm -q to find the > versions and rpm -e to remove one will fix things so the rest of > the updates will work. Now how do I tell if there are any other > duplicates besides the ones that happened to be noticed by the > dependency checks? can you try a $ rpm -qa > file.txt after that work on that file to find duplicates.?