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 __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/ADC/LE _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _