This evening I installed Fedora 10 onto my desktop so I can use it as my primary OS – I’d had enough of Vista 64 Ultimate to last me a lifetime. Anyway, I didn’t expect the install to go amazingly smoothly, since I’m running relatively new hardware, however I was pleasantly surprised at just how easy the install has become. My only wee gripe is that I had an issue with my standard yum update which I do after I install any Red Hat OS.

This may (or may not) have been caused by an issue with RPMfusion, since I had installed their repo onto my system, regardless, I was presented with the following:

[root@desktop64 src]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package m17n-contrib-marathi.noarch 0:1.1.8-2.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package m17n-contrib-tamil.noarch 0:1.1.8-2.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package mesa-dri-drivers.i386 0:7.2-0.14.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package m17n-contrib-sinhala.noarch 0:1.1.8-2.fc10 set to be updated

……..

---> Package bind-utils.i386 32:9.5.1-0.9.b3.fc10 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10 is needed by package gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.i386 (installed)
kpackagekit-0.3.1-4.fc10.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-qt.so.10 is needed by package kpackagekit-0.3.1-4.fc10.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10 is needed by package gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-qt.so.10 is needed by package kpackagekit-0.3.1-4.fc10.i386 (installed)


This was resolved by simply doing a

[root@desktop64 src]# yum remove gnome-packagekit kpackagekit
since these packages were the only ones causing an issue.

[EDIT: VileGent in #fedora on freenode suggested the following, which would also resolve the issue, without having to remove packagekit yum --skip-broken update ]
In related news, it looks like Fedora was stricken with a rather large bug which caused a log of issues with dbus etc – I think the above problem was strongly related to this bugzilla bug, however I can’t be sure, and I can’t be bothered to to a re-install to find out – besides, I can live without packagekit anyway

[UPDATE: Updated packages are available, but haven't been signed and committed to the [fedora-updates] repository yet. If you can’t wait, try the following script:
#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/src
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-qt-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-glib-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-yum-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-udev-helper-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/PackageKit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kpackagekit/0.3.1/9.fc10/i386/kpackagekit-0.3.1-9.fc10.i386.rpm
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gnome-packagekit/0.3.12/1.fc10/i386/gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm
yum install --nogpgcheck kpackagekit-0.3.1-9.fc10.i386.rpm gnome-packagekit-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-glib-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-qt-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-yum-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm PackageKit-udev-helper-0.3.12-1.fc10.i386.rpm