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

[Lars Jensen]

Martin,

I'm confused about your link: Under "Solution" you say "...upgrade to
version 6.53", but the example you give uses v. 6.51. Which one do you
mean I should upgrade to?

Thanks,
Lars.

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Martin Siegert wrote:

> 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
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