Weird dependency problem!

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Hi,

I want to install net-snmp-devel package but i have following dependecy problem.
It's very odd, i don't get it. One of packages is depended on the other one, the other one is depended on the previous one as well. :S :S

Could you help me please?

Here are the steps:

[root@tkist2 Desktop]# ls -l
total 2664
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220771 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63601 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122120 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-devel-static-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25098 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65436 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187356 Nov 4 2008 elfutils-libs-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2008026 Nov 19 2008 net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm

[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
beecrypt-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
elfutils-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
elfutils-libelf-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
rpm-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64

P.S The red ones are installed.

[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
elfutils-devel-static-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64
elfutils-libelf-devel-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64

[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
beecrypt-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
elfutils-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
elfutils-libelf-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
rpm-devel is needed by net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5.x86_64
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
elfutils-devel-static-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64
elfutils-libelf-devel-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
elfutils-libelf-devel-static-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
elfutils-libelf-devel-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.137-3.el5.x86_64
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]#
[root@tkist2 Desktop]# rpm -ivh elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
elfutils-libelf-devel-static-x86_64 = 0.137-3.el5 is needed by elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5.x86_64

2

The obvious question first: why don't you install it using the distributions package manager? I think it's yum for Red Hat. Those usually have automatic dependency tracking, and can track official software repositories to download software from.

3

Ineed. Redhat / Fedora has its repositories and no need to install all .rpm's manually.
Use yum for it.

yum install net-snmp-devel
4

If I recall right you can do a

rpm -ivh <rpm> <rpm> <rpm> .....

In other words put all the interdependent rpm's on one line.

Good luck

5

yum would be the best option, as it will verify dependencies and install the required ones.

If you feel the need to install them one at a time using rpm, perform a force install on the first one ( using the --nodeps option) and the rest should install without complaint after that. I've used this method successfully myself, but would only recommend it as a last resort since yum will do a much better job.

Hope this helps!