What Causes Phantom Update Nags?
My Update Applet keeps giving me messages to install an update to a package I do not have installed. To make matters more confusing, when I
actually try to install the package it wants to update, there is a problem with the installation.
Any tips on how to resolve this? Is this somehow caused by the repositories I have enabled?
7 thoughts on - What Causes Phantom Update Nags?
What package?
To make matters more confusing, when I
What problem?
Perhaps but it’s impossible to say without having more detailed information provided by you.
What repositories do you have enabled?
can you run in a shell window,
sudo yum check-update
and paste the output here ?
otherwise we’d just be guessing whats going on.
OK, here ya go
rpmforge née RepoForge is not being updated much anymore and is no longer a ‘good’ repository. for an example perl-IO-Compress hasn’t been updated since 2012. anyways, perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 is part of base
in el6.
I would uninstall any packages you need that are from rpmforge, remove that repo from your repos.d and find equivalent packages in a better supported repository.
this should list any RepoForge packages that are already installed on your system…
rpm -qa |egrep \\.rf
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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository entanglement problem, but I didn’t know why. I mean why do I keep getting messages about updating something I don’t have installed.
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MzK
“We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo.”
— David Letterman
its a broken repository and shouldn’t be used. “I know its broken but decided to use it anyways?” maybe that warning should be made stronger.
Am 02.07.2015 um 20:08 schrieb John R Pierce:
Not installed packages are installed to resolve dependencies of packages that will be updated.
BTW – rfx tagged packages respectively the corresponding repo replaces distro packages.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2010-November/msg00096.html
as Dag wrote: RPMForge is dead.
http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/029506.html
The decision is yours.