Tag Archives: yum
Fixing Yum dependency problems on RedHat Linux and CentOS
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 … Continue reading
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by xxx
Trying to install the IBM JDK 64bit I came across the following error: libstdc++.so.5 is needed by ibm-java2-x86_64-sdk-5.0-8a.0.x86_64 It turns out that yum has a neat feature to show what package provides a given component: yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5 gave the … Continue reading
Public key for xxx.rpm is not installed
After an upgrade to CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 we got the following error: Downloading Packages: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897 Public key for openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.x86_64.rpm is not installed It turns out that the key needs … Continue reading