Re: Perl Update via Up2date

From: Dick (lri031004_at_angelina.cs.tcu.edu)
Date: 10/05/03 

Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 19:48:43 -0500

In article <e5fe19c9.0310020246.ba6a1e7@posting.google.com>, John
<sirtitus2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Jeff Grossman <jeff.nospam@stikman.com> wrote in message
> > I went to update the Perl RPM's on my Redhat 9 system, but I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> > perl-5.8.0-88.3 requires perl-NDBM_File <=
> > 1:1.75-34.99.6
> >
>
> We got the same problem here on our RedHat 9 systems which we
> 'upgraded' from previous versions rather than fresh installs.
>
> Simply removing the existing perl-NDBM_File package (which even
> matched the required version number) fixed the problem!!

My system was upgraded from 7.3 to 9.0 and all preceding patches
applied. Using rpm, I got the error

perl-NDBM_File <= 1:1.75-34.99.6 conflicts with perl-5.8.0-88.3

After removing perl-NDBM_File-1.75-26.72.3, the rpms for the perl
uodate installed without error.

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