Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts <dan at jlazyh.com> wrote: >> # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm >> error: Failed dependencies: >> rpm >= 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> rpm-python is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> yum-fastestmirror is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> Either I am running this in the wrong location, or there is a lot of >> other stuff out of whack. > > It looks like your system is closer to 5.2 than 5.3. > > In that case, I suggest you try to install this RPM of yum instead: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm > > If it still asks about dependencies, you will have to download them > and install/upgrade them manually using RPM. > > Look for them here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/os/i386/CentOS/ > And here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/ > > Once you get to install yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1, yum should start > working again. > > When you got that done, you can try to use it to upgrade again, but > this time I advise you to do it on a screen session from an SSH > connection, and not through Webmin. And do not reboot the server in > the middle of the upgrade, since that is probably what started your > problems in this case. Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the update process kicked me off and died with a bunch of duplicate packages still in the rpm database. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com