Problem adding yum repositories & yum crashes

[Brian Harrington]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Derick Centeno wrote:

> There are times when working with this list is quasi-mystical!  Rick, I
> was working with apt-get because my thoughts had moved in your direction
> and the rpms I had gotten were getting me nowhere as they themselves
> kept referring to other dependencies, etc.

> error: Failed dependencies:
>        libxml2 = 2.5.2 is needed by (installed) libxml2-devel-2.5.2-2
> [root@arakus aguila]# rpm -Uvh lib*.rpm
> warning: libxml2-2.5.4-3a.ppc.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> aeb6b9c4
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        libxml2 = 2.5.2 is needed by (installed) libxml2-devel-2.5.2-2

You're actually doing the right thing here.  Just download the updated 
libxml2-devel rpm and try "rpm -Uvh lib*.rpm" again and it should work.

                         -- Brian



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Brian Harrington
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