Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 252208
Yum refuses to install package compat-wxGTK
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:13 EST
Description of problem: Yum refuses to install package compat-wxGTK. 'yum -y install compat-wxGTK' will actually install wxGTK. If wxGTK is already installed, the yum command says that wxGTK is already installed and the latest version (even though what was requested was compat-wxGTK). compat-wxGTK26 is not installed. Is compat-wxGTK being deprecated and if so, is this really the way to do it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wxGTK-2.8.4-3.fc7 compat-wxGTK-2.4.2-21.fc6 compat-wxGTK26-2.6.3-2 yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and update F7 2. Make sure compat-wxGTK is not installed 3. Do yum -y install compat-wxGTK Actual results: compat-wxGTK does not get installed. Expected results: compat-wxGTK should get installed.
Yes, compat-wxGTK is being deprecated. Since we can't take it out of the spins, the best we can do is to have wxGTK provide/obsolete it. Nothing should be using the ancient 2.4 code at this point, nothing in Fedora is, and it was conflicting with other wxGTK code and preventing it from running.