Missing Dependencies

larry77 · #1 6th June 2006, 09:18 AM

Hi,
I am fairly new to Fedora and so far I have used only yumex for my updates/package installation.
I did not enable many repositories (the default one and I added the livna repos enabling only [I read from yumex]:
/etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo ). I mainly need some scientific software for my work.
When looking for updates this morning I saw:

Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package evolution-sharp
Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package gnome-panel
Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package evolution
Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package evolution-webcal

Now, I think I should enable more repos, but I am afraid to end up with an unstable system (on my own box I can do anything, but not on a production machine to use at work). I know something about Ubuntu (which I was using before), but not about what is better to allow for Fedora in detail.
Any suggestion to move on is really welcome.
Cheers

Larry

smfinley · #2 6th June 2006, 09:27 AM

Do a "yum -y --exclude evolution-data-server --exclude evolution-data-server-devel update" as root for now until they get evolution-data-server rebuilt.

PurpleT · #3 6th June 2006, 10:30 AM

Heya.

No worries. All the packages in the official repositories - core, updates, extras go through a stringent review process to assure your system will remain stable, and to prevent such dependancy nightmates.

What's happened right now is that gnome 2.14.2 was released earlier in the week, meaning that about 50 new packages have to be rebuild. These are added to the repository one by one, and you may find if you try and update whilst this is still happening a dependancy is yet to be reubild, ie libecal. Wait till tomorrow, and you should find all runs smoothly.

larry77 · #4 6th June 2006, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PurpleT

Heya.

No worries. All the packages in the official repositories - core, updates, extras go through a stringent review process to assure your system will remain stable, and to prevent such dependancy nightmates.

What's happened right now is that gnome 2.14.2 was released earlier in the week, meaning that about 50 new packages have to be rebuild. These are added to the repository one by one, and you may find if you try and update whilst this is still happening a dependancy is yet to be reubild, ie libecal. Wait till tomorrow, and you should find all runs smoothly.

So, if I understand correctly, what I saw today does not mean that I will have to add extra repositories (which, honestly, I do not need at all right now) because of some broken dependencies, but that I simply have to wait a little bit. I'll post again if I do not see any improvement in the next few days.
As a whole, I am fairly impressed; compared to Ubuntu even scientific software like R (which is not needed by the average user) gets updated very much more often.
As soon as a get a laptop for work, I will give FC5 a try on that as well.
Cheers

Larry

#5 6th June 2006, 12:19 PM

yes. i was scared to when i got error after error wanting libecal..

i had a nightmare earlier trying to get the evolution plugin for Multisynce to work. and it was requiring and earlier verion which i couldnt find. either way..

ill be patient

moxie · #6 6th June 2006, 05:40 PM

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07dcolem · #7 6th June 2006, 06:30 PM

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I was also a little worried.

dayeliu · #8 6th June 2006, 07:50 PM

This has been ongoing for about a month for me. Seems the culprit is libstdc++-20060203.so.7, required by scim*, which I tried to exclude from yum.conf, but did not work.

Is this the correct syntax to have it excluded in /etc/yum.conf?
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exclude=scim*

Thanks.

PurpleT · #9 6th June 2006, 08:47 PM

Right everyone, the update has run for me now. If you still can't update, you can flush yum's cache as so
(as root) # yum clean all

>dayeliu
You have a different problem. I'd recommend removing the scim package if rpm will let you (unless this package is vital to you - it's international input), trying to update, and then reinstalling scim (if need be) from core or extras.

> As a whole, I am fairly impressed; compared to Ubuntu even scientific software like R (which is not needed by the average user) gets updated very much more often. As soon as a get a laptop for work, I will give FC5 a try on that as well.
Red Hat has a history of application in science which has followed through into Fedora, whereas Ubuntu is more specifically targeted at home desktop use. On updates: Ubuntu has a policy to only release updates if they are needed to correct security or other critical bugs (arguably making a more stable distribution that is easier to manage). However as soon as developers release a new version of their program, the Fedora packagers work hard to bring to updates or extras as soon as they can , with the exception of major version changes of any VITAL programs that would upturn the distribution eg GCC or Gnome, for which we await FC6.

Repositories :
The official Fedora repositories are
core: what comes on the CDs
updates: updated packages from core
extras: yet more packages that weren't found on the CD but are deemed to be useful

Fedora can't include mp3 playback codecs and DVD support for (sigh) legal reasons, so if you want this, you have to find somewhere else. There are two cartels of unofficial repositories, each of which by themselves should work fine with the official repos, but do not play nicely with each other. They are
1) livna.org - this has a small selection of packages, including mp3, dvd, nvidia and ATI drivers (this is all packaged by just one guy)
2) the 'RPMforge' family. This includes freshrpms.net (maintained by an official extras packager) which has mp3 and other common software. There is also Dries (Rpmforge) which has a *huge* selection of otherwise unavaliable software, and also atrpms.net (similar to freshrpms it overlaps a little ).

Me: I have core, updates, extras and freshrpms enabled by default which is *safe*. If I'm looking for something rare, I then try dries. I cleaned out all the packages from livna when I updated to fc5 (by yum as my CDs were corrupt yes that was a little scary), and I've not had problems since.

chmac · #10 7th June 2006, 09:03 AM

Just for reference, the update is not working for me at the moment.

I'm guessing it may be to do with a mirroring issue, and I'm assuming it'll work in the next 24 hours or so.

eschi · #11 7th June 2006, 09:31 AM

I've the same problem. But within the next 24 hours it should work...Hopefully ;-)

titaniumrain · #12 7th June 2006, 10:02 AM

It doesn't work for me either... I have been waiting for over 24 hours...

raluke · #13 7th June 2006, 12:12 PM

No luck for me, either. I ran "yum clean all" first.

-Robert

Tamerz · #14 7th June 2006, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smfinley

Do a "yum -y --exclude evolution-data-server --exclude evolution-data-server-devel update" as root for now until they get evolution-data-server rebuilt.

This worked perfect for me. Let me install everything except the things that aren't ready. Thanks.

kai4785 · #15 7th June 2006, 03:33 PM

yum -y --exclude evolution-data-server --exclude evolution-data-server-devel update

This still gives me an error on evolution, but nolonger gives me errors on the data server or the devel version. So I added --exclude evolution to the line to make it:
yum -y --exclude evolution --exclude evolution-data-server --exclude evolution-data-server-devel update

Still doesn't work

Code:

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.9()(64bit) for package: evolution
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9()(64bit) is needed by package evolution

Fresh FC5 install at the office. Kind of a pain to not be able to update my system after I nuked my windows machine. I can't raise my screen resolution until I run my update. I'm stuck at 800x600