scanner woes

[Andrew]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:39, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> At 10:11 -0700 on 2004-4-28 Steven Didier wrote:
>  >
>  > xsane-gimps says I need libgimp-1.2.so.0, as does gtkam-gimp they
>  > also say that I need libgimpui-1.2.so.0
> 
> Hmm, libgimp-1.2.so.0 is provided by gimp-1.2.3-9 which is available
> from the usual YDL repository.  Same goes for libgimpui-1.2.so.0
> (i.e., it is provided by the same package).

I copy that. ]$ locate libgimp-1.2 -> do <- confirm its there as well as
libgimpui-1.2... But yum say no :(

>  > yet yum cannot find those packages! Any suggestions?
> 
> `yum install gimp' should do, in fact just installing whatever it is
> that you try to install should do (xsane-gimp) since yum is supposed
> to take care of dependencies automagically.  I am at a loss why is it
> that it does not do it for you.

I had to deal with the very same situation a couple week ago. I finally
resolved it doing:
]$ rpm -e --nodeps gimp gimp-devel; yum -y install gimp gimp-devel
then yum updated stuffs as it should. Strange but true