I am lost - Dependency madness (RHEL53)

jibbajabba

Just thought to check 'yum update' for no apparent reason ...

Suddenly I get hit by a wave of

Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0 is needed by package netpbm-progs-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by package ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0 is needed by package kolourpaint-1.2.2-2.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by package compiz-0.0.13-0.37.20060817git.el5.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0 is needed by package 2:pilot-link-0.11.8-16.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by package zvbi-0.2.33-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)

The list goes on and on ... always referring to libpng12.so.0

Now the file is there (not just once even):

[root@mike-home lib]# locate libpng12.so.0
/usr/NX/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/NX/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.10.0
/usr/lib/vmware/installer/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/vmware/installer/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

Any tips for a n00b ?

Some people suggest this is related to either 'zlib' or 'glibc'

But

[root@mike-home lib]# rpm -qa |grep zlib
zlib-1.2.3-3
[root@mike-home lib]# rpm -qa |grep glibc
glibc-headers-2.5-34
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-2.5-34
compat-glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-common-2.5-34
glibc-devel-2.5-34

I am lost

Edit:

Mmm... I am wondering if rpmforge installed versions which don't yet exist in the RHEL repo .. I excluded 'libpng.i386' now from yum and I can update again *headscratch*

dynamik

There's a database of what's installed. Even though the files exist, if they weren't registered with that, it would appear like it wasn't installed. Just like copying a folder to the program files dir as opposed to installing something in Windows.

jibbajabba

dynamik wrote: »

There's a database of what's installed. Even though the files exist, if they weren't registered with that, it would appear like it wasn't installed. Just like copying a folder to the program files dir as opposed to installing something in Windows.

I already rebuild the rpm database if this is what you mean

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm –rebuilddb
yum clean all

Edit yet again : I was sure I tried that ... but MAYBE I tried that on the test server for testing *oops* - now tried it again on my workstation and now I don't get the dependency error anymore. Now when I include libpng again in yum it actually updates it

Yay ...