yum install gives conflict on libgcj and libgcj34

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:32:01AM +0100, Bruce Southwick  wrote:
> While trying to install a variety of modules I get the same message. 
> yum install ...
> ...
> Running test transaction:
> Errors reported doing trial run
> file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgcj.pc conflicts between attempted installs of libgcj34-devel-3.4.0-1 and libgcj-devel-3.4.1-2
> file /usr/lib/lib-org-w3c-dom.so.5.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs of libgcj-3.4.1-2 and libgcj34-3.4.0-1
> file /usr/lib/lib-org-xml-sax.so.5.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs of libgcj-3.4.1-2 and libgcj34-3.4.0-1
> file /usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs of libgcj-3.4.1-2 and libgcj34-3.4.0-1
> 
> Question is is libgcj libgcj34 correct.  In either case other modules
> require one or the other so picking one will prevent multiple modules from
> installing.

This sounds like yum bug.
libgcj-3.4.1-2 package has:
Obsoletes: libgcj34
and libgcj-devel-3.4.1-2 has:
Obsoletes: libgcj34-devel

Try using a different update program (e.g. up2date) or rpm -e libgcj34
libgcj34-devel manually and retry.

	Jakub