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Ok I really think I messed some stuff up when I updated the system using yum and those other repositries.
Now when I try to do an update (in Gnome by the way using the rhn notification icon in the system try) I get a package conflict error with libXML here is the exact error:
Test install failed because of package conflicts: file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 from install of libxml2-2.6.15-2 conflicts with the file from package libxml2_2.6.10-2_11.rhfc2.at
now when I double click the alert icon it tells me what versions I have and are available this is what comes up (including the perl stuff just to hopefully help out.):
Package Installed Available libxml2 -2.6.10-2_11rhfc2.at -2.6.15-2:,-2.6.15-2 libxml2-python -2.6.10-2_11rhfc2.at -2.6.15-2:,-2.6.15-2 perl-XML-LibXML -1.53-1 -1.56-10:,-1.56-10 perl-XML-LibXML-Common -0.12-1 -0.13-5:,-0.13-5 perl-XML-NameSpaceSupport -1.08-1 -1.08-5:,-1.08-5 perl-XML-SAX -0.12-1 -0.96-2:,-0.96-2
Doing the "yum clear all" gave me a gaim update and a redhat-artwork update that went flawlessly.
Thanx again.
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:00, Ryan McDougall wrote:
Ok I really think I messed some stuff up when I updated the system using yum and those other repositries.
The trick to using the repositories is to understand the difference between Fedora Core, Fedora Extras and Fedora Alternatives. (I haven't seen those terms used in a while, maybe the terminology has been dropped but the distinction still holds.)
Fedora Core This, obviously, is the core set of packages released by Red Hat and the Fedora Community.
Fedora Extras This is the set of packages which are not part of Fedora Core but are popular enough to be packaged up specifically to work with Fedora Core.
Fedora Extras is split into two: * Fedora.us which contains the Extras packages suitable for distribution in the USA, and * Livna.org which contains packages such as MP3 codecs which are probably fine for use anywhere else in the world but may be legally suspect for use in the USA.
Fedora Alternatives This is the loose affiliation of repositories such as Freshrpms, DAG, ATrpms, NewRPMs, etc., which not only package software not found in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras but may also package *alternative*, i.e. newer or differently compiled, versions of software found in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras. Care should be taken in installing packages from Fedora Alternatives (i.e. you should try to understand what you are doing).
Now when I try to do an update (in Gnome by the way using the rhn notification icon in the system try) I get a package conflict error with libXML here is the exact error:
Test install failed because of package conflicts: file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 from install of libxml2-2.6.15-2 conflicts with the file from package libxml2_2.6.10-2_11.rhfc2.at
To me this looks like you have installed a version of libxml2 from one of the Fedora Alternatives repositories (perhaps yum installed it as a dependency for something else you installed from one of the Alternatives repositories), and there is now a conflict between the libxml2 package from Fedora Core updates and the one you have installed. This is one of the things you have to deal with if you install things from the Alternatives repositories.
Best, Darren
I think you nailed it right on the head with that. I had all those alternatives in my yum.conf so I bet you that is what happened. Now I'm just using Fedora Core sites. I may look in to the Fedora Extra sites too. Might be easier than trying to scour the web for stuff... although if I had to look that hard for some of the software I've been looking for I don't know if it would be in the Extra sites.
Well with the explination of what actually happened figured out, is there anything we can do to fix it short of a fresh reinstall?
Thanx for all the help.
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Ryan McDougall um 19:00:
Test install failed because of package conflicts: file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 from install of libxml2-2.6.15-2 conflicts with the file from package libxml2_2.6.10-2_11.rhfc2.at
now when I double click the alert icon it tells me what versions I have and are available this is what comes up (including the perl stuff just to hopefully help out.):
Package Installed Available libxml2 -2.6.10-2_11rhfc2.at -2.6.15-2:,-2.6.15-2 libxml2-python -2.6.10-2_11rhfc2.at -2.6.15-2:,-2.6.15-2 perl-XML-LibXML -1.53-1 -1.56-10:,-1.56-10 perl-XML-LibXML-Common -0.12-1 -0.13-5:,-0.13-5 perl-XML-NameSpaceSupport -1.08-1 -1.08-5:,-1.08-5 perl-XML-SAX -0.12-1 -0.96-2:,-0.96-2
You definitely mix core and alternative repos. I know that, because I did it as well but started to get into some dependency problems, so I "downgraded" my system again to a more or less vanilla core/extras-system and everything is fine now.
To keep order on my boxes and in my mind as well, I use rhn/up2date and yum only to update core/extra components and applications to keep my boxes free of mixtures regarding the system.
Nonetheless I like some applications from the alternative repositories, and I want to keep them as uptodate as possible. For them I use apt/synaptic, because I know how to keep system updates abay.
So in /etc/apt/sources I have all the core/extra-repositories plus the alternatives. Through /etc/apt/preferences I can do the following:
# cat /etc/apt/preferences Explanation: base os Package: * Pin: release c=os Pin-Priority: 993
Explanation: updates Package: * Pin: release c=updates Pin-Priority: 993
Explanation: stable Package: * Pin: release c=stable Pin-Priority: 993
Explanation: audacity Package: audacity Pin: release c=freshrpms Pin-Priority: 994
This means: all applications which are in the core/extras are not replaced by the same applications in alternative repositories - even if they have a higher version number. But all applications I have through alternative repositories will be updated (e.g. gxine).
The last entry about audacity means, that I want to stick with the audacity package from freshrpms (it has mp3-support and is more stable than the one from planetccrma - at least here).
Just one thing has to be considered with Axel Thimms repository: I point to at-good and not to at-stable, so that it is not regarded as a core-repository by /etc/apt/preferences.
This might not be a very orthodox approach, but it works great for me.
Well I fixed it everyone. It was a wierd issue, I know I fixed but I'm not quite sure why it was fixed or why it WASN'T fixed in the normal ways.
1) Download yumi/gyum from fedoranews.org (at least thats where I got it from). 2) Download the yumi update notification icon from fedoranews.org. 3) Manually install the updates that it is complaining about and all is well!!
Thanks everyone for your help though!
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