[LON-CAPA-admin] up2date and maxima dependancy error

D G Teed donald.teed at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 15:43:19 EDT 2007


Updating our lon-capa server running RHEL 4...

Everything is current except maxima.  I get this:

# up2date -u

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-es-4...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates-noarch...

Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
maxima                                  5.12.0         1.0.rhel4.lc      x86_64


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...

Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
#######################################
Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.11.0-8.rhel4.lc    requires maxima = 5.11.0


The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Package                                Required by
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What is the best way to resolve this?  I'm not sure how best to manage
this type of installation with the non-Redhat channel.

--Donald



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