Bug 237410
| Summary: | Newer packages for python2.4 break dependency tree for users of original packages | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James Davis <warchildwts> |
| Component: | kdeutils | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | deanm, icdeadpeople2, jpmahowald, katzj, rdieter, reg.bugs, triage |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-06 19:31:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
James Davis
2007-04-22 07:14:56 UTC
The 32bit python package hasn't ever been shipped for x86_64 in FC6 and shouldn't be being required (In reply to comment #1) > The 32bit python package hasn't ever been shipped for x86_64 in FC6 and > shouldn't be being required I just installed FC6 (respin) on a 64-bit machine and I'm having the same problem as the OP. I did the install, then an update. Following this, I installed the kde stuff from the redhat-kde repository. That triggered the problem with the missing "provides". The actual problem appears to be that both i386 and x86_64 versions of kdeutils and kdeedu get installed. The x86_64 versions require the 64-bit version of libpython2.4.so.1.0 (which is on my system) and the i386 versions require the 32 version of libpython (which is _not_ installed on my system). Yum does not even see a i386 version of python2.4. By removing the i386 versions of kdeutils and kdeedu, the dependency problem vanishes. I'm a newbie at "multilib" systems so I don't really know what bad things will happen from having removed these packages. I'm not so sure about this, but the problem might be elsewhere. In initial installation of fc6 there is no kdeutils.i386 or kdeedu.i386 versiou, but it appeared in updates. And these updates depend on python.i386, which doesn't exist. I don't know, what's the standard "fix" for such bugs... yum install kdeutils - fails yum install kdeutils.x86_64 - works I'm afraid I'm quite new to linux (messing on and off for a while though) and this has thrown me. I installed x86_64 with the default settings a few months back, have done updates, added beryl and nvidia drivers. I decided to add KDE the other day and give it a try. I got the same "Error: Missing Dependency: libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by package kdeutils" responce from both the "Add/Remove software" in the UI and from "yum groupinstall 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)'" on the command line. No idea what to do next... Running Gnome on FC6(64). Following on from the comments made here, I was able to install the KDE desktop as follows: yum install kdeutils.x86_64 yum groupinstall 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)' --exclude=kdeutils yum install switchdesk I have checked kcalc etc. and they seem to run fine. Hope this helps to squash the bug! Clearly multilib ugliness going on here. Can anybody confirm this is still a problem with the latest updates? Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |