On 22 August 2017 at 23:44, Stephen L. Talbott <[email protected]> wrote: > For something like a week or two yum autoupdate on my system has been > failing with the message > > Failed to check for updates with the following error message: > Failed to build transaction: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 requires > libplist.so.1()(64bit) > libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 requires libimobiledevice.so.4()(64bit) > libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 requires libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit) > > Each of the required files is currently installed on my system. If, > which is doubtful, I understand the error output from Yum Extender > (shown below), the problem somehow arises from the fact that "yum update" > is trying to replace those required files with later versions. I can > find no information about how to resolve the situation. "Yum clean" > hasn’t helped. > > There are something like 270 packages currently requiring updating on my > system, but the errors appear to be (for me) showstoppers. --skip-broken > now skips all of them, since I ran it earlier to install whatever packages > I could. If there are any obvious routes of attack on the problem, I > would appreciate hearing about them. But I am not an admin type, so if > the problem is complex, I would also be interested in knowing whether > there is a resource somewhere where one can find (qualified!) admins who > are in the market for occasional, long-distance, paid consultation. I > could use such a connection in any case as an alternative to bothering > this list — in which, I am afraid, I really don’t belong (although I do > receive useful information from *reading* it). > > Many thanks. > > ########################## > “Dependency Resolution Errors” resulting from an attempt to manually run > 'yum update' from the Yum Extender utility: > > 16:25:59 : ERROR: Dependency resolving completed with errors > 16:25:59 : ERROR: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
Please try the following: yum --disablerepo epel update The problem seems to originate with a package from the EPEL repository. Alan.
