Yay Package Managers…¶
So, today I log into one of my RHEL6 machines and notice that
yum says there are some updates to apply.
Trying to do a simple update gives:
$ yum upgrade
<snip>
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: gnote-0.6.3-3.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201301301459.x86_64/6.4)
Requires: libboost_filesystem-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Removing: boost-filesystem-1.41.0-17.el6_4.x86_64 (@rhel-x86_64-server-6)
libboost_filesystem-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Updated By: boost-filesystem-1.55.0-4.el6.x86_64 (eosl-el6-x86_64)
Not found
Available: boost-filesystem-1.41.0-18.el6.x86_64 (rhel-server-el6-x86_64)
libboost_filesystem-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Available: boost-filesystem-1.54.0-14.el6.x86_64 (eosl-el6-x86_64)
Not found
Error: Package: gnote-0.6.3-3.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201301301459.x86_64/6.4)
Requires: libboost_system-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Removing: boost-system-1.41.0-17.el6_4.x86_64 (@rhel-x86_64-server-6)
libboost_system-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Updated By: boost-system-1.55.0-4.el6.x86_64 (eosl-el6-x86_64)
Not found
Available: boost-system-1.41.0-18.el6.x86_64 (rhel-server-el6-x86_64)
libboost_system-mt.so.5()(64bit)
Available: boost-system-1.54.0-14.el6.x86_64 (eosl-el6-x86_64)
Not found
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Okay? Trying a Google search didn’t bring anything useful up for a
while. At this point, I’m ready to start banging my head on the desk.
And then, I came across this thread. It turns out gnote wanted
an old version of boost. The catch is, I don’t use gnote. I
normally ssh in and use the terminal for everything. When I do
sit down at the workstation, I prefer KDE. I have no use for gnote
so it can just go away. Following the instructions I ran:
$ rpm -qa | grep -e "boost-.*-1\.41\.0.*" | xargs rpm --test -e
to check which programs wanted the specific version of boost and:
$ yum remove gnote-0.6.3-3.el6.x86_64
to remove the offending package. In the above, the boost version (or
what ever is causing the issue) can be updated in the regex to grep
and then the package simply removed. Now to get back to trying to write
some documentation…