Hi Seth, thanks for the help on IRC today. After a bit more testing, I've realized a couple things: 1) If I run rpm -U --test javalinks-1.4.2_01-1.i386.rpm it gives the conflicting file errors every time. 2) If I run 'yum install javalinks' (using the same package as above, of course), it sometimes installs and sometimes gives the error during the test transaction. It seems to install 4 out of 5 times on average - 1 out of 5 times (give or take) it gives the conflicting file errors. This is when I am repeatadly running 'yum install javalinks', 'yum erase javalinks'. So, I installed yum-2.0.5. Now the 'yum install javalinks' gives the error every time - this is good! But now I want to throw in even more confusion, so: # yum erase glut glut-devel Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) [...] I will do the following: [erase: glut 3.7-12.i386] [erase: glut-devel 3.7-12.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! Erasing: glut-devel 1/2 Erasing: glut 2/2 Erased: glut 3.7-12.i386 glut-devel 3.7-12.i386 Transaction(s) Complete ---------- # yum -y groupupdate Instructional Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) [...] >From Instructional installing glut >From Instructional installing javalinks >From Instructional installing glut-devel Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: javalinks 1.4.2_01-1.i386] [install: glut 3.7-12.i386] [install: glut-devel 3.7-12.i386] Getting glut-3.7-12.i386.rpm glut-3.7-12.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 80 kB 00:00 Getting glut-devel-3.7-12.i386.rpm glut-devel-3.7-12.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 182 kB 00:00 Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! glut 100 % done 1/3 javalinks 100 % done 2/3 glut-devel 100 % done 3/3 Installed: javalinks 1.4.2_01-1.i386 glut 3.7-12.i386 glut-devel 3.7-12.i386 Transaction(s) Complete
