[Discuss] Trials and tribulations of a Yum update :-)

[Jerry Feldman]

Last week I did an upgrade install of Fedora 17. All went well.
The other day I received the standard notification that there were
updates available, I started the update, but inadvertently logged out.
From work I logged in and did a yum update. The problem I got was
"ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:"
libcups.so.2 is needed by gtk2-2.24.10-1.fc17.i686
mesa-dri-filesystem(x86-32) is needed by mesa-dri-drivers-8.0.3-1.fc17.i686

A Google search shows many references as well as bugzillas. The real
problem here has to do with the upgrade install and some left over
stuff. The solution was to remove mesa-dri-drivers-8.0.3-1.fc16.i686 and
gtk2-2.24.10-1.fc16.i686
The 32-bit mesa driver is needed by adobe reader. In any case after
removing both of these the update completed successfully.

I usually recommend a new install, but I sometimes like to do an upgrade
install because it is a bit easier. In any case, all is well now.

BTW: The only reason I used Adobe Reader was that my bank statements
when I print dual sided (1 side at a time), it always skips a page.
Adobe seems to do better. Most of the time I print at work where we have
a duplexer.



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