From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: hia I am trying to get my linux box to update to the latest version of rpm (amoung other things) I get the error message below. how do I work arround this problem and get the thing to install. up2date --update Retrieving list of all available packages... ######################################## ######################################## Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: ==Unresolvable chain of dependencies: perl-Perl-RPM 0.291-2 requires librpm.so.0 perl-Perl-RPM 0.291-2 requires librpmio.so.0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run up2date --update on my box. 2. 3. Actual Results: up2date --update Retrieving list of all available packages... ######################################## ######################################## Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: ==Unresolvable chain of dependencies: perl-Perl-RPM 0.291-2 requires librpm.so.0 perl-Perl-RPM 0.291-2 requires librpmio.so.0 Expected Results: update working. Additional info: I belive there is a security update waiting to be installed.
The perl-Perl-RPM package has been renamed to rpm-perl. Try removing the perl-Perl-RPM package and proceeding with your update: rpm -e perl-Perl-RPM up2date -u and then if you want rpm-perl: up2date rpm-perl
thnaks this seems to have fixed the problem phaps it would be good to document this some where on the Errata Page. thanks Nick