Fixing Yum dependency problems on RedHat Linux and CentOS

Posted on 2009/08/30 by Balazs

Yum update fails

I see the question of failed dependencies come up on forums quite a bit. Users post errors like:

Missing Dependency: bind-utils = 9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1 is needed bind-sdb-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1

or

ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi is needed by package ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64

or

httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2.x86_64 (updates)

In all these cases, the solution is to clean yum:
yum clean all

References

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