Yes, thank you, this worked wonderfully, to remove the kernel-source
package, although it gave a few mesages about some of the driver dir's not
being empty. Thanks!
Later,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the rpm upgrade command tries to uninstall
> kernel-headers-2.2.9-19 (before installing the -27 headers), but finds
> that you have kernel-source-2.2.9-19 installed, which depends on it.
>
> I'd say it should work if you also get the kernel-source-2.2.9-27
> package, and give them both at the same time to rpm -Uhv; it may also
> be sufficient to first uninstall the kernel-souce package (rpm -e
> kernel-source-2.2.9-19mdk), and then try to upgrade kernel-headers.
>
> -- Alex
>
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:47:32PM -0700, R. David Whitlock wrote:
> | I am attempting to upgrade my kernel headers for 6.0 (Venus) to 2.2.9-27
> | so that I can install VMware. I am currently running the 9-27 kernel
> | wihout any problems, and I had thought I had installed the headers before,
> | but I get the following message from the vmware-config.pl :
> |
> | The directory of kernel headers (version 2.2.9-19mdk) does not match your
> | running kernel (version 2.2.9-27mdk). Consequently, even if the
> | compilation of the module was successful, the module would not load into
> | the running kernel.
> |
> | So I get the kernel-headers rpm for the 9-27 kernel, and attempt to
> | install them:
> |
> | [david@pandora download]# rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm
> | error: failed dependencies:
> | kernel-headers = 2.2.9-19mdk is needed by kernel-source-2.2.9-19mdk
> |
> | So what gives? I don't understand why rpm is asking for the previous
> | kernel rpm or if this is some sort of bad and strange parsing error
> | somewhere. Can someone point out what it is I'm missing, or perhaps
> | another attack on the main problem? I wasn't going to upgrade to Cooker
> | for awhile for stability reasons, but maybe that would be a (long and
> | tedious) solution that wouldn't really help me understand what's wrong.
> | Can anyone help?
> |
> | Later,
> | David
> |
> |
> | "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
> |
>
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