On 12/26/2014 10:17 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Yasha Karant!
>
>   On 2014.12.26 at 09:59:15 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote next:
>
>> I also tried yum update libevent as well as yum install libevent
>> libevent-devel libevent-headers -- the same dependency issues appeared.
>> Because I need the KDE development environment, I cannot yum erase libevent
>> and then attempt to install libevent using the postgres repo unless all of
>> the KDE items also will be reinstalled and will be compatible with my
>> existing system (e.g., do I need to reinstall all of EL 6 KDE -- I do NOT
>> want KDE Plasma).  Further suggestions?
> Actually, I think not removing devel/headers/doc package seems to be the
> only thing you did wrong. Yes you can't remove libevent, but you can
> remove libevent-devel package.
>
> Now, there can be two libevent versions (1.4 and 2) present on system,
> but postgresql repo doesn't provide development package for libevent
> 1.4. So new packages will have to be built with libevent 2. If you
> strictly need to build package against old libevent (I hope not), than
> this way won't work for you unless you make your own rebuild of libevent
> which solves this problem..
>
using the Add/Remove Software GUI:

libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6 (i686)

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
libevent-1.4.so.2 is needed by nfs-utils-1:1.2.3-54.el6.i686
Please report this error at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red$20Hat$20Enterprise$20Linux$206&component=yum