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

Apparently you are missing 32 bit versions (.i386.rpm) of:

gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.1
bonobo-activation-2.2.2-1

on your system and up2date fails to pull these from
rhel-x86_64-ws-3 RHN channel ...

as to why ... you'll have to ask Red Hat ...

Jarek
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