[CentOS] yum update troubles

Mon Jan 3 20:59:13 UTC 2011
Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this:
>
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for
> package: perl-IO-Compress
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 is needed
> by package perl-IO-Compress
>
> I try to uninstall perl-IO-Compress but something like 91 packages
> depend on it.  Any ideas?

Do you have 3rd party repositories enabled? Did you enable them with
care and use yum-plugin-priorities or yum-plugin-protectbase?

You may have to untangle installed packages from mixed repositories
before you can go any further.

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Jeff