Description of problem: Failed to install pcre-devel while running: yum install pcre-devel --nogpgcheck Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) How reproducible: Install "Minimal" distributive packages set except of yum, open-ssh and RHN components using DVD (rhel-server-5.5-x86_64-dvd.iso) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run yum install pcre-devel --nogpgcheck Actual results: yum install pcre-devel --nogpgcheck Loaded plugins: rhnplugin Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package pcre-devel.i386 0:6.6-6.el5 set to be updated ---> Package pcre-devel.x86_64 0:6.6-6.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================================================ Installing: pcre-devel i386 6.6-6.el5 rhel-x86_64-server-5 181 k pcre-devel x86_64 6.6-6.el5 rhel-x86_64-server-5 184 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================================================================ Install 2 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total size: 365 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: libpcre.so.0 is needed by pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5.i386 libpcrecpp.so.0 is needed by pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5.i386 libpcreposix.so.0 is needed by pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5.i386 pcre is needed by pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5.i386 pcre is needed by pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5.x86_64 Complete! (1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%205&component=yum']) Expected results: pcre-devel package is installed Additional info:
What do the following commands output: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest yum list pcre pcre-devel
Running 'yum clean all' fixed the problem for to day. But some packages were updated and the repository data regenerated - that seems fixed the issue.
Not sure if there was/is a bug ... my guess was a prexisting problem in the rpmdb, or something weird to do with multilib. Given clean all fixed it, and I don't have enough info, I'm just going to close though.