Sunday, August 23, 2009

CentOS 5.3 Upgrade Woes

I ran yum upgrade on a development box running CentOS 5.3 and came across this error message:

--> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 for package: gamin-python
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 for package: libxslt-python
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 for package: libxml2-python
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed)
libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386 (installed)
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386 from updates has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386 (updates)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386 (updates)
Some searching on Google resulted in this post from April 2009 which indicated a yum clean all would do the trick. All is well now :)

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