Category: Technical

Cancelled yum transactions

If you’ve ever aborted a yum update for any reason, you’ve probably come across messages warning of transaction errors, such as the following example during an update from CentOS 5.4 to CentOS 5.5 that got cancelled part way through: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/include/libdevmapper.h from install of device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.32-1.el5.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man8/dmsetup.8.gz from install of device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5.i386...

yum install and weird architecture behaviour

I was just trying to accomplish what you would think was a relatively easy task – installing the PHP-GD package from the Atomic Rocket Turtle repository for 64bit CentOS 5 and ran into a slightly cryptic problem. Running yum install php-gd simply produced a dependancy error php-gd-5.2.13-1.el5.art.i386 from atomic has depsolving problems –> Missing Dependency: libt1.so.5 is needed by package...