Description of problem: The version of tmux in EPEL depends on a version of libevent that is not available on CentOS 4 / RHEL 4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tmux.x86_64 0:1.4-3.el5.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. CentOS 5.4 - x86_64 2. Enable EPEL 3. yum install tmux Actual results: Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package tmux.x86_64 0:1.4-3.el5.1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2()(64bit) for package: tmux --> Finished Dependency Resolution tmux-1.4-3.el5.1.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2()(64bit) is needed by package tmux-1.4-3.el5.1.x86_64 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2()(64bit) is needed by package tmux-1.4-3.el5.1.x86_64 (epel) # Note - libevent 1.1 is installed, from base. Expected results: libevent 1.4 and tmux1.4 would be installed Additional info:
I see now that the libevent-1.4 is available in 5.5 and 5.6 os repos. For others with this problem, you probably have a bad repo file, mine, from RightScale, was hard coded to the 5.4 repo. Wayne