[kde-linux] yum update ends with 'missing dependency'

[Bruce Bales]

On Monday 24 July 2006 14:45, ne... wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2006 at 13:43, Bruce Bales in a soothing rage wrote:
> > Using Fedora core 5 and kde-3.5.3.   I have tried several times to run
> > yum update and it runs for over an hour, filling many screens and always
> > stops with the same error.
> >
> > ----snip----
> > kakasi-dict-2.3.4-21.fc5. 100% |=========================| 3.8 kB   
> > 00:00 ---> Package kakasi-dict.i386 0:2.3.4-21.fc5 set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: libmp4ff.so.0 for package: mythmusic
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 set to be erased
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: libmp4ff.so.0 for package: mythmusic
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libmp4ff.so.0 is needed by package mythmusic
> >
> > But libmp4ff.so.0 is installed.  It is a link to libmp4ff.so.0.0.0, which
> > is installed.
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 Jun  8 12:09 libmp4ff.so ->
> > libmp4ff.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 Jun  8 12:07
> > libmp4ff.so.0 -> libmp4ff.so.0.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   38448 Mar 17
> > 18:22 libmp4ff.so.0.0.0
> >
> > What can I do to get past this and update my system?
>
> The fedora list @ RedHat is a much better place for these types of
> questions (yum specific.) I would exclude mythmusic from the update
> and get the rest of the updates. I generally do a 'yum check-update'
> to get a list of everything that needs updating. Then do the update
> in batches so that I can easily deduce what I need to update by hand.
> Depending on how libmp4ff was installed, it might not be in the rpm
> db and so may need to be instaaled as an rpm.
>
> HTH
> N.Emile...

Since I started this off-topic thing here, I will close it out here.
I started excluding things and found that the offending packages were faad2 
and faad2-devel.  With them out, the update ran.  It downloaded 533 MB in 
something over 8-1/2 hours and finished updating while I slept.  Probably the 
check-update and batch method would be easier to handle and I'll use that 
next time.

rpm -q says that mythmusic is installed.  I guess mythmusic knows where the 
libmp4ff is, but somehow faad2 doesn't.  yum update faad2 still says the 
libmp4ff is needed by mythmusic.  Haven't been able to find an rpm for 
libmp4ff.so.0 

Thanks, N.Emile, for the help.
bruce