On 28/09/2007, Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:28:55PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>> Installing kernel 2.6.22.9 goes fine. But then I get this when installing
>> the kernel-headers RPM:
>
> kernel-headers isn't supposed to be parallel-installed with multiple
> versions.  rpm -Uvh kernel-headers*.rpm

Funny, I had older versions on there (8 of them), and no problems.
But since you asked, take a look for yourself what happened when I
tried...

# rpm -q kernel-headers
kernel-headers-2.6.22.9-88.fc7
# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.6.22.9-88.fc7

Is that what Chuck said you should do? No. It was:

rpm -Uvh kernel-headers*.rpm

so no wonder you get:

error: Failed dependencies:
         kernel-headers is needed by (installed) glibc-headers-2.6-4.i386
         kernel-headers >= 2.2.1 is needed by (installed)
glibc-headers-2.6-4.i386

Do I really want to wipe out glibc? Let's try this...

# rpm -Fvh kernel-head*.rpm

Again, not what you were told to do. When updating you are doing just that, no freshening or removing.

Cheers
Chris

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