Gerry Tool gstool@earthlink.net wrote:
yum update – many available.
Can't update due to
Error: Missing Dependency: libebook-1.2.so.5 is needed by package control-center
Here I excluded the following (after updating as much as possible yesterday):
bug-buddy control-center ekiga evolution evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-devel evolution-sharp gaim gnome-panel gnome-panel-devel nautilus-sendto
The evolution-* mess is due to evolution-webcal.
One way forward:
yum check-update | tail -n +4 | cut -d. -f1 | sort -u > /tmp/list
Note that this isn't very kosher, as there are packages with '.' in their names, but as a first approximation it does work out. The "sort -u" is more for x86_64, where there are multiple packages with the same name, this gets rid of duplicates.
Then go over /tmp/list and see what you can install without messing things up, after the failed "yum upgrade" it is (somewhat) obvious what could work as a first cut, and upgrade that "by hand", i.e.,
yum -y upgrade kernel* krb5* glibc* ...
Any breakage, delete the offending piece(s) and try again until the group (plus dependencies) goes in cleanly.
Rinse and repeat as required. When finally at wit's end (or bored to death by all this), brute-force what is left (creating a new list first):
for p in $(< /tmp/list); do yum -y upgrade $p; done
Note that this last is very inefficient: It starts a new yum(8) for each package, if some were installed earlier due to dependencies, it won't notice; it also doesn't notice interdependent groups of packages that can't be installed and tries each one in turn. That is why a few rounds of hand-upgrading before going one-by-one is a good idea.