Problem updating

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon Oct 19 08:53:26 UTC 2015


> When I run "sudo dnf update" I get the following error
> ========================================================================================================================================================================
>  Package                                     Arch
> Version                                         Repository
> Size
> ========================================================================================================================================================================
> Skipping packages with conflicts:
> (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
>  xorg-x11-server-Xorg                        x86_64
> 1.18.0-0.5.20150907.fc23                        updates-testing
> 1.4 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ========================================================================================================================================================================
> 
> Should I follow the advice to add '--best --allowerasing'?

Use --best to see what the problem is.

If you have updates-testing repo enabled, I recommend you to use 'dnf distro-sync' instead of 'dnf update'. You might not even need --allowerasing then.

You should not need --allowerasing once the release is stable. Since F23 is not stable yet, I guess it might happen. But always carefully review what's going to get removed. It might be a bug and you might delete an important part of the system.


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