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