On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 16:14 -0400, Anne Ramey wrote: > I'm getting a strange problem when I try and do an update. I just got > these machines and wanted to do a general update, so I include the > desired repositories and do a yum update. It finds a whole bunch of > files (including: > Update: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-14.FC3 > Update: perl-Cyrus.x86_64 0:2.2.12-1.1.fc3 > Update: perl-suidperl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-14.FC3 > ), downloads them, then gives me this: > Running Transaction Test > Finished Transaction Test > Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from > install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/FindBin.pm from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Path.3pm.gz from install of > perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 > > how can those two packages conflict? Shouldn't it just update perl? > These are the first 2 64-bit machines I've used yum on...do I need > different repositories? it's a packaging problem on fedora core 3. run: yum remove perl.i386 -sv