yum install glibc.i686 conflict

[Jason Viloria]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Jussi Lehtola <
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:48:05 +0100
> Jason Viloria <jnvilo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone help me out fix this confit please? System is F14 64bit.
> > Need glibc.i686 to get skype to work.
> >
> > problem: yum install glibc.i686 fails with:
> >
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >   file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of
> > glibc-2.12.90-19.i686 conflicts with file from package
> > glibc-2.12.90-17.x86_64
>
> You'll need to update the x86_64 version to the same version of the
> 32-bit package you're trying to install. So either run
>
> # yum update
> followed by
> # yum install glibc.i686
>
> or, to update just the 64-bit glibc package run
>
> # yum install glibc.i686 glibc.x86_64
>

thanks, I should mention that I have tried the following already:

yum update [goes just fine and no new updates needed to be done]
yum  install glibc.i686

and I get:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of
glibc-2.12.90-19.i686 conflicts with file from package
glibc-2.12.90-17.x86_64


and doing : yum upgrade glibc

gives:

Transaction Check Error:
  package glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 (which is newer than
glibc-2.12.90-17.i686) is already installed
  package glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 is already installed
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of
glibc-2.12.90-17.i686 conflicts with file from package
glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS conflicts between attempted
installs of glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 and glibc-2.12.90-17.i686

Error Summary


It seems my rpmdb is somewhat fubard?

/jnvilo
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