RPM conflicts

Mark Haney mhaney at interactsys.com
Thu Nov 11 15:31:40 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:28 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:46:19 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> > Okay here's my problem.  I upgraded my machine to FC3 with no problems.
> > However, in the latest round of updates there are new libxml2 libs
> > available.  I want to upgrade my libs but here's the error message I
> > get:
> > 
> > RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
> > Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> > file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 from install of libxml2-2.6.16-3 conflicts
> > with file from package libxml2_2-2.6.15-2_14.rhfc2.at
> > 
> > 
> > Now, I did an rpm -e of the libxml2 libs that I got from ATRPMS and did
> > a force install of the base FC3 rpms to the system.  However, I still
> > get the above error message when I try to upgrade.  What did I miss when
> > removing the packages and how do I go about fixing this so I can get the
> > FC3 released updates?
> 
> There are broken packages in ATrpms which upgrade Fedora Core. For
> libxml2, look up the corresponding bug report in bugzilla.atrpms.net
> if you're interested. You may need to disable the repository in your
> yum configuration as a work-around.

Yeah, I checked that right after I posted this.  I'm still learning the
internals of RPM and finally found my problem.  It's working now, and
thanks for the heads up.


> 
> -- 
> Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.667
> loadavg: 1.01 1.07 1.07
> 

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel: 2.6.9-1.667 GNU/Linux 
10:30:52 up 2:56, 2 users, load average: 1.59, 1.53, 1.21 

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