Paul - Greatly appreciate your kind offer and assistance. My "yum update yum" did the trick. When I look at the long list of unresolved dependencies, I get apprehensive (not about the php, though it is widely used by me), but about some that touch on what appear to be core items. Todd Paul Malinowski wrote: > Todd, > > If you have any problems with updating yum, get right yum package from: > > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-1.noarch.rpm > > and install manually (rpm -i <name of package> ) > > if you will have any problems get me sudo access to your box for yum and I will do it. > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary > Sent: Tue 26/09/2006 17:51 > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing dependencies > > Paul - > > How do I update YUM? New for me..."yum update yum"??? > > Todd > > Paul Malinowski wrote: > >> Todd, >> >> From my experience I can bet that there is only one or two packages which are source of all problems. >> >> a) Try to upgrade yum first. >> b) try to remove and install again php (copy config files if you have edit them) >> >> >> You can also force upgrade, but that's not recommended (perhaps there is major reason why you have that problems) >> >> >> >>>> And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? >>>> >>>> >> It's hard to say. Keep a track on most importent packages on your system. >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary >> Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 19:49 >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing dependencies >> >> Paul - >> >> There are more than the one I gave as an example. What would you >> suggest for this list: >> >> --> Running transaction check >> --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mysql >> --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mbstring >> --> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 3.4.5 for package: libgcj-devel >> --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-gd >> --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-pear >> --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: >> httpd-suexec >> --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: >> httpd-manual >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution >> >> And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? >> >> Todd >> >> Paul Malinowski wrote: >> >> >>> There are many ways to fix it, but IMHO the simplest one is to backup config, remove php-mysql, then yum update, and yum install php-mysql. >>> >>> It should be fine. >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary >>> Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 15:05 >>> To: centos at centos.org >>> Cc: >>> Subject: [CentOS] Missing dependencies >>> >>> I tried to update my Centos with yum update as I have done in the past, >>> but this time I received a list of dependencies. This is a new >>> experience for me and I would appreciate any help/suggestions. Here is >>> one of the lines: >>> >>> Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 is needed by package php-mysql >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060926/e1842712/attachment-0005.html>