Fedora 13 AdobeReader_enu nss-softokn-freebl multiple version conflict

[Jerry Feldman]

On 05/29/2010 01:11 PM, Rich Emberson wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Fedora 13, first on my laptop
> and then my main machine. Both are 64bit with
> nvidia cards.
>
> On the laptop everything went as expected, but on
> the big box I could not install AdobeReader_enu.
>
> When I try:
>
> yum install AdobeReader_enu
>
> I get the error message:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>    package nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-19.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than
> nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed
>
> Now, on the laptop:
>
> rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n' | grep
> nss-softokn-freeb
>
> Yields:
>
> nss-softokn-freebl 3.12.4-19.fc13 x86_64
> nss-softokn-freebl 3.12.4-17.fc13 i686
>
> while on the big box I get:
>
> nss-softokn-freebl 3.12.4-19.fc13 x86_64
>
> So how do I install both the x86_64 3.12.4-19.fc13 version and the
> i686 3.12.4-17.fc13 version of nss-softokn-freebl?
>
> For some reason, the laptop let me load both versions while my big
> box wont.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
I had a similar problem trying to run Moneydance (Java 32-bit).
sudo yum downgrade nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-17.fc13.x86_64
then
sudo yum install glibc-2.12-1.i686
(In my case I was trying to install glibc-2.12-1.i686)
You could then do
sudo yum install nss-softokn-freebl 3.12.4-17.fc13 i686

In any case downgrade the one that is installed

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