[CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

Mon Sep 22 16:27:45 UTC 2008
Marcus Moeller <mm at gcug.de>

Good Evening.

>>> I believe what Dag is saying is that, if you wish to use audacity, you
>>> cannot update wxGTK.  Conversely, if you update wxGTK, you cannot use
>>> audacity.  I'm sure he will eventually resolve the issue.
>>
>> In the meantime, how are we supposed to go about to install AMule, VLC and
>> Audacity on a *new* install? No problem to write an 'exclude=' line in
>> /etc/yum.conf on existing systems so updates get currently ignored. IMHO
>> these things should have been put to some testing repo first. I prefer
>> having slightly outdated software rather than mutually excluding updates :o/
>
> Because this is not really a CentOS issue, I think it is best to take
> it to the rpmforge packagers' mailing list.  For example, Fabian
> recently discussed wxGTK here:
>
> http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/packagers/2008-September/000709.html

Are there any updates on that? yum still complains about missing
dependencies on an installation with aMule and wxGTK.

Best Regards
Marcus