Missing dependency issues installing MRTG from yum

GavB · 02-18-2008, 06:43 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to install MRTG on a new server but am getting the following:

Code:

yum install mrtg
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  91 kB    00:00
################################################## 305/305
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 163 kB    00:00
################################################## 314/314
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package mrtg.i386 0:2.14.5-2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Socket6 for package: mrtg
--> Processing Dependency: perl-IO-Socket-INET6 for package: mrtg
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Socket6 is needed by package mrtg
Error: Missing Dependency: perl-IO-Socket-INET6 is needed by package mrtg

Has anyone known this before? I've tried looking on Google without much luck.

It would be great if anyone can help

thanks in advance!

Jay_Drummond · 02-18-2008, 07:09 AM

Which distro?

Jay_Drummond · 02-18-2008, 07:26 AM

Looks like CentOS 5.

I run
yum install mrtg

and the transaction is fine.

if you run
rpm -qa | grep -i perl

I'll assume you don't see
perl-Socket6
perl-IO-Socket-INET6

Here's my output:

Code:

[root@computer ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i perl
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6
perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1
perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-1.fc6
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-15
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.30-4.fc6
perl-Socket6-0.19-3.fc6
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.11-1.2.1
perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.fc6
perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5
mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5
perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1
perl-DBI-1.52-1.fc6
perl-IO-Zlib-1.04-4.2.1
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.01-1.fc6
[root@computer ~]#

GavB · 02-18-2008, 07:44 AM

Sorry, yes it is CentOS 5 - heres what I got when running that:

# rpm -qa | grep -i perl
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2

That's all :/

GavB · 02-18-2008, 07:55 AM

I've installed it using the download available from http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ and it seems to have installed. I just need to test it to see that it works properly.

Thanks for your replies, I'll keep you updated if it works.

Jay_Drummond · 02-18-2008, 09:01 AM

You might also want to clear the yum cache. That transaction would have worked on my machine without any problems. If you don't get yum going properly it will be in the way all the time. Plus you are installing from source and will have to update that yourself, e.g. no CentOS updates for mrtg will ever be downloaded and applied when the community makes a fix.