Unresolved dependencies

This is the part of openSUSE that is the most frustrating. There are
updates available for many of packages installed on my system (180
updates in all) but when I go to apply these Yast comes back with a list
of a dozen or so "unresolved dependencies". In some cases certain
packages are "locked". In others, it "can't find installable providers
of ...". In most cases there are options to "ignore" or "delete" or
some other to resolve the issue. But that seems like a good way to hose
the system.

Any suggestions? I don't quite understand why these are occuring,
since I would expect any needed (dependent) packages would be available
from the standard repositories as well. Are there some others I need to
add to fix this?

Thanks for any help. -Pat
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