Re: RPM hangs removing packages...


Subject: Re: RPM hangs removing packages...
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 20:56:01 MST


John,

You need to run 'yup' as root and also 'rpm' as root. From your output below,
it doesn't seem you are running these commands as root ...

-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)

On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:01, you wrote:
> All,
>
> I recently tried to do a yup update and this failed with the following
> error message:
>
>
> *[john@guanine packages]# yup update
> Reading RPM database... (100%)
> Performing dependencies sanity check...
>
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependency cpp = 2.95.3-2u for package gcc-g77*
>
>
> This really sucks, and I couldn't figure out a way around it so I
> figured removing the
> gcc-g77 package would be the leasat painful route. Problem is that RPM
> hangs while
> doing the following:
>
>
> *[john@guanine packages]# rpm -qa | grep g77
> gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
>
> john@guanine packages]# rpm -e gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
> ттттт
> ттттт
> *
>
> Sooo... I'm stuck. I can't fix the RPM package set to progress and I
> can't do an update
> because of this stumbling block. So how do I move forward from here?
>
> -- John



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