Greetings, On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 08/11/2012 07:40 PM, fred smith wrote: >>> I can also confirm that its impossible to install everything on >>> CentOS-6. That is by design, there are functional overlaps that are >>> enforced at the rpm level that prevent you from doing so. >> KB: I assume this was done for some useful purpose, not simply to >> make sure nobody can install everything if they want to... > > Right, its based on duplicate functionality. in some cases ( like > sendmail + postfix ) you can indeed install both. But in others, you cant. > >> back in the RH5/6 days (not RHEL) I used to commonly choose an >> "everything" installation. now that the distribution is so big >> I don't even try, anymore. > > yeah, and the idea of 'everything' is a bit odd given that you can now > include external repos - so you might get an everything install that > brings in 12,000 rpms - runs for 3 days to get done - and needs 50GB of > disk space :).. > Thanks KB, for the explanation. I will be more careful this time around. The missing dependency I was talking about was about : /quote ** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: 1:emacs-23.1-21.el6_2.3.x86_64 has missing requires of libotf.so.0()(64bit) /unquote I got this error when trying to install scribus -- Regards, Rajagopal