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Re: Slightly OT: updates to openoffice fail on RHEL 3 for AMD, but OK on SL for i386
From:
"Stephen J. Gowdy" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Stephen J. Gowdy
Date:
Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:40:37 -0700
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Hi Michael,
	Since you pay RedHat why not ask them?

							regards,

							Stephen.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael Hannon wrote:

> Greetings.  We're running a mixture of Redhat Enterprise Linux, version
> 3 (RHEL 3) and Scientific Linux version 3 (SL 3).  We happen to be
> running RHEL on our AMD (Opteron) workstations, simply because SL either
> wasn't available for them or wasn't on our radar when we got the
> workstations.
>
> Redhat has recently announced a patch (or patch set?) for openoffice.
> We've tried on two different Opteron, x86_64 systems to install the
> patch.  It fails on both of them in weird ways, as, for instance:
>
> # /usr/sbin/up2date --update --nox
> Invalid group id server-cfg
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> openoffice.org                          1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3
>   i386
> openoffice.org-i18n                     1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3
>   i386
> openoffice.org-libs                     1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3
>   i386
>
>
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
>
> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> openoffice.org-libs  1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3    requires libbonobo-activation.so.4
> openoffice.org-libs  1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3    requires libgnomevfs-2.so.0
>
> We tried just removing all of the openoffice* stuff and reinstalling.
> The results are at least equally strange:
>
> ]# up2date openoffice
> Invalid group id server-cfg
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> openoffice                              1.0.2          8
>   i386
>
>
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> ########################################
> openoffice-1.0.2-8.i386.rpm ########################## Done.
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
> Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.
>
> On the other hand, if we do a "yum update" on our SL 3.0.3, i386
> systems, the new openoffice stuff installs perfectly.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing comments, suggestions, etc., about this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> 					- Mike
>

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