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I'm trying to install libevent-devel but it failed due to dependencies which shown below.

I tried also to install the dependencies needed by libevent-devel but it also failed as its needs the libevent-devel as shown below.

How can I resolved this issue?hope for your helped.

[root@box1 opt]# rpm -ivh libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64.rpm

warning: libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies:

libevent-doc = 1.4.13-4.el6 is needed by libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64
libevent-headers = 1.4.13-4.el6 is needed by libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64

[root@box1 opt]#

[root@box1 opt]# rpm -ivh libevent-doc-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm

warning: libevent-doc-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 192a7d7d: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies:

libevent-devel = 1.4.13-4.el6 is needed by libevent-doc-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch

[root@box1 opt]#

[root@box1 opt]# rpm -ivh libevent-headers-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm

warning: libevent-headers-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies:

libevent-devel = 1.4.13-4.el6 is needed by libevent-headers-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch

[root@box1 opt]#

cutejakes .
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Download the libevent package from http://libevent.org/ and compile it.

wget "https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz"
tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.14b-stable
./configure
make
sudo make install
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Ankit
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Give rpm all the mutually dependent packages on the same command line, and it will recognize that the dependencies are satisfied:

rpm -ivh libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64.rpm libevent-doc-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm libevent-headers-1.4.13-4.el6.noarch.rpm
Rob Kennedy
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I also found this circular dependency. Just workaround it by using the --nodeps option.

[root@box1 opt]# rpm -ivh libevent-devel-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64.rpm --nodeps

Once installed, you can now install libevent-doc and libevent-headers without problems.

Ankur
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