A couple of months ago, the PackageKit utility on my Fedora 18 system stopped working. YUM continued to work so I had an easy workaround and did not really try to trace down the problem and fix it. I assumed that a future version of a PackageKit RPM would fix the problem. Recently I did a FedUp upgrade to Fedora 19 and the problem persisted so I decided the time had come to investigate the root cause of the problem and fix it. Here is how the problem manifested itself: A quick check of Fedora Bugzilla convinced me that the
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Getting an error like the following when installing a package or group of packages on your Fedora 17 system? Error: Protected multilib versions: XXXXXXXX.fc17.i686 != XXXXXXXX.fc17.x86_64 This is because whenever you have both 32 and 64 bit versions of a package, they must be of the same version and release. The error message is showing you that the 32 bit version-release of the package does not equal (!=) the 64 bit version-release. You either need to update the 32 bit version to match the 64 bit version, or erase the 32 bit version to get rid of this error. While |
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