Fedora 16 dependency hell

Question

There's a package libvpx-0.9.7 which is required by empathy application. Now I want to install another application which requires libvpx-1.0... Update is not allowed because some applications depend on the old version. What's the solution to this situation?

Answer 1

I'm running Fedora 16 and Skype. And I have Empathy installed. Empathy does not have any requirement (either explicit or implicit) on libvpx:

# rpm -q --requires empathy | grep -i vpx

And in fact, very few things depend on it directly:

# rpm -e libvpx
error: Failed dependencies:
    libvpx.so.1()(64bit) is needed by (installed) xulrunner-10.0-1.fc16.x86_64
    libvpx.so.1()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-2.fc16.2.x86_64

I have this Skype package installed:

# rpm -q skype
skype-2.2.0.35-fc10.i586

And this version of libvpx:

# rpm -q libvpx
libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64

In fact, libvpx 0.9.7 does not appear to be available in the Fedora 16 repositories.

I would make sure that all your existing packages have actually come from the Fedora 16 repositories.