yum --enablerepo=epel provides \*/libntfs-3g.so.81

finds libntfs-3g.so.81 in epel's ntfs-3g-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386, so 
installing ntfsprogs from epel with yum should resolve the dependency by 
getting both it and ntfs-3g.  Indeed, with sl-contrib (and, it happens, 
epel) disabled by default, and neither ntfsprogs nor ntfs-3g installed on 
my SL5 i386 computer,

yum --enablerepo=epel install ntfsprogs

did install both.  Maybe more details about what yum repos are enabled, 
what you did, and what the yum output was would help explain why what you 
tried didn't work.  Or you might be able to resolve the problem simply by 
first installing ntfs-3g from epel.

Steven Yellin

On Sun, 25 Dec 2011, g wrote:

> excuse delay in reply. this mess has been aggravating to no end. decided to
> let it sit and come back to it.
>
> On 12/16/2011 09:26 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>>      In my SL5, i386 computer, with the yum-priorities rpm installed, in
>> /etc/yum.repos.d the sl-contrib repository has "priority=10", the dag
>> repository has "priority=30", and the epel repository has no priority set.
> -=-
>
> my settings are same.
>
>
>> According to
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
>>
>> "Packages from repositories with a lower priority will never be used to
> -=-
>
> nice to know, but following such is still no help.
>
>
>> So it may be safer to instead remove the "priority=10" line in the
>> sl-contrib repo, or just temporarily disable sl-contrib, as I previously
>> suggested.
> -=-
>
> i took that even further. i removed old '2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386'
> and 'testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386'.
>
> it matters not where i tried to install the new packages from, i still get
> same error, "Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by ...".
>
>
> -- 
>
> peace out.
>
> tc.hago,
>
> g
> .
>
> To all, Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
>
>