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  • 1.  Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 02, 2020 10:28 PM

    I got 'DepencencyError' when applying a new patch downloaded from VMware patch list.

    Can anyone help?

    TIA



  • 2.  RE: Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 02, 2020 11:34 PM

    Use profile update commands:

    To get a list of available profiles within a path use the command below:

    esxcli software sources profile list -d <location of ZIP file>

    example: esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update02.zip

    Then, run this command to update the host:

    esxcli software profile update - p <profile name> -d <location of ZIP file> -f

    example: esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update02.zip -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard -f



  • 3.  RE: Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 18, 2022 06:12 AM

    it worked well from 6.0 to 6.5 with hp custom images for dl20 gen9 at least.



  • 4.  RE: Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 02, 2020 11:40 PM

    hope you are doing fine:

    Please check this out VMware Knowledge Base



  • 5.  RE: Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 03, 2020 03:35 PM

    Thank you guys for replying!

    Unfortunately our existing install is not a standard vendor one - we tweaked (customized)  the installer so the profile names are different

    Here is 'esxcli software profile get'

    Then update error (problem to match the customized name)

    Then I tried the 2nd way (VIB install) from the KB and got DependencyError



  • 6.  RE: Dependency error on patching with 'esxcli software vib' command

    Posted Sep 03, 2020 03:55 PM

    You have made a mistake, you have used image profile that installed on your ESXi host. Get image profile from the zip file and then update image profile. review the shared commands again.