[CentOS] xulrunner dependancy problem

Sun Feb 22 02:18:26 UTC 2009
Rich Huff <rich at richhuff.com>

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 17:23 -0800, listmail wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:07:14 +0000, Ned Slider wrote
> > listmail wrote:
> > > Is anyone else noticing a problem updating Firefox and its dependencies?
> > > 
> > > It appears that xulrunner-devel 1.9.0.6-1.el5 wants xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1.el5,
> > > but "this is not available". Following is the output from Yum when I attempt
> > > to update Firefox on CentOS 5.2 X86_64:
> > > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > Strange - xulrunner-devel isn't a dependency of firefox or xulrunner.
> > 
> > Try uninstalling xulrunner-devel, do the update, and then 
> > reinstalling xulrunner-devel if you really need it.
> > 
> Thanks, that seems to have solved the immediate problem. I don't think
> I need xulrunner-devel for anything, so I'll just leave that alone for now.

I have run into similar problems when I have both i386 and x86_64
versions of the base package installed.  Usually uninstalling the i386
base package allows the update of the x86_64 version, at least for me.

HTH,
Rich

> Cheers,
> --Bill
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