From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: Though rpm -q reports perl-Perl-RPM-0.291-2 as installed, rpm -e perl-perl-RPM-0.291-2 reports package as not installed. rpm --rebuilddb does not help. I have been trying to use up2date for the last two months. According to up2date, the following modules are out of date: rpmfind, rpm2html, gnorpm, kdeadmin, rpm, rpmbuild, rpm-devel, rpm-python. I am running rpm 4.0.2 release 8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run up2date -fv at command line ( or up2date & in an xterm window 2.I am notified of the modules listed above as being in need of update 3. Actual Results: I get a message: There was a package dependency problem. The message was : unresolveable chain of dependencies. perl-Perl-RPM-0.291-2 requires librpm.so.0 perl-Perl-RPM-0.291-2 requires librpmio.so.0 I have tried to uninstall perl-Perl-RPM-0.291-2 and have been told that the package is not installed, but giving an rpm -q perl-Perl-RPM-0.291-2 reports it as installed Expected Results: Packages should have been updated Additional info: The three computer in question are registed with you as: winred71.polinsky.home debwin983.polinsky.home ibmred71.polinsky.home
With the help of someone from one of the usenet groups, I was able to remove the offending rpm with the command rpm -e perl-Perl-RPM, leaving off the sub-part. All is fine now