Thanks...sorry about the repeat. I did a google search on this list and it didn't show your posting...thanks again. Regards, T On 13 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:33, Theresa Chen wrote: > > While trying to upgrade a RH 7.3 distro to 9, I received the following > > error: > > > > ############SNIP############### > > > > # yum -y upgrade > > Gathering package information from servers > > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 base > > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates > > Finding updated packages > > Downloading needed headers > > Finding obsoleted packages > > Resolving dependencies > > .conflict between perl and perl-NDBM_File > > > > ###########SNIP############# > > > > Any ideas? > > > > yep. > > I posted about this to this list. > > you need to remove perl-NDBM_File first > > in rhl 8.0 perl obsoleted perl-NDBM_File > but that obsolete was removed in rhl 9. > > so yum has no way that those two aren't just a conflict. > > -sv > >