On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:30 -0600, Mark McNair wrote: > Hello all > > When running YUM Update on fedora3 (x86_64)- I get a transaction check > error on the Perl rpm no less.... It reports a file conflict which > will disallow the update: ' file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from > install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package > perl-5.8.5-9' - for about 25 files or so.. > What is the best way to handle this? Uninstall perl-5.8.5-9 and then > install perl*-12 ? I have applications on this box now I can't trash.. > Thanks for any help on this.. This was a bug in the fedora core 3 perl update. The recommended workaround is: yum remove perl.i386 yum update you'll still have the perl.x86_64 rpm and all should be fin. that should solve it. -sv
