From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: # rpm -U fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: librecode.so.0 is needed by fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386 # apt-get install fortune-mod Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: fortune-mod: Depends: librecode.so.0 but it is not installable E: Broken packages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fortune-mod-1.99.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # rpm -U fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: librecode.so.0 is needed by fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386 Additional info:
$ rpm --redhatprovides librecode.so.0 recode-3.6-13 $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) But the fortune-mod packages released into Fedora Extras Development have the same version-release as those for Fedora Extras 3. That's a bug.
My fault. As side-effect of experimenting with yum and apt, I managed to break my local apt repositories. Sorry for the confusion.