[LON-CAPA-admin] RPM update with check-rpms

[Martin Siegert]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:38:52PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
> When I do a check-rpms -v I'm told that I need the new version of
> ghostscript (v. 6.51). However when as root I do 
> 
> check-rpms -v --update -noftp
> 
> I get an error that 
> 
> [root at schubert rpms]# check-rpms -v --update --noftp
> updates for i686 processor, RH 6.2
> Getting list of installed packages
> Getting package lists from /var/tmp/rpms ...
> 
> RPM files to be updated:
> 
> ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1.i386.rpm
> Running rpm -Fvh ...
> error: failed dependencies:
> VFlib2 is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> xtt-fonts is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> libVFlib2.so.24   is needed by
> ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> 
> The needed packages above are not to be found at
> install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS nor any of the RedHat rpm mirrors
> I checked. 
> 
> How do I do this update? (Debian updates works better ;-)   )
> 
> Thanks,
> Lars.

see

http://www.sfu.ca/~siegert/linux-security/msg00120.html

(section on RedHat 6.2) for an explanation and solution.

Cheers,
Martin