From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I started up the program, entered the root password, and chose to add a number of packages and package categories. I was told I couldn't install what I wanted until I installed some other packages first. Why didn't the installer app just take care of these for me (possibly saying it would also install these other packages)? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.8-1 How reproducible: I can reproduce this every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH9.0 destroying all partitions. Install the default "workstation" set of apps. 2. Log in, run System Settings->Add/Remove Applications. (if necessary, input root password when prompted) 3. Scroll down to development and turn on development tools, X software development, and GNOME software development sets. Don't modify the sets, just take them as they are. 4. Click Update to install the applications in each set. Actual Results: The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed. Unlocatable package Required by ---------------------- --------------- krb5-libs = 1.2.7-10 krb5-devel openssl = 0.9.7a-2 openssl-devel Expected Results: The app should never have produced such a message. All the apps you can install with this installer app are RH9.0 apps. So, RH ostensibly checked them and shipped apps that have only dependencies that can be satisfied with other packages from RH9.0. Additional info: I don't see how a novice user would deal with such a message should this come up for something novices would be likely to run. I think it would be far more useful to determine what the unsatisfied dependencies are, install them, and let the user move on with using the system. I installed Red Hat 9.0 instructing the installer to wipe out all partitions on the hard disk, so this should be an install from (nearly) scratch. I also ran the up2date program to update the installation prior to attempting to install the dev tools listed above. I have deleted no packages and I have installed no packages except for those I tried to install through the redhat-config-packages GUI and those I successfully installed with the up2date program.
I'm running into the same issue. In my case, the dependencies are there, but the package utility isn't finding them or isn't sorting through them correctly. For example, I attempted to install the telnet-server. I was presented with a dialog saying that the xinetd dependency must be satistfied first. Jumping to command line, "rpm -qa | grep xinetd" reports: xinetd-2.3.10-6 I was able to insert disc 3 and install the telnet-server RPM package manually using rpm.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83485 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.