File conflicts

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Chris Kottaridis <chriskot <at> quietwind.net> writes:

> 
> I tried to use yum to install openchange-devel and that package seems to
> have a man page in common with the man package:
> 
> $ yum install openchange-devel
> <bunch o stuff>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/index.3.gz from install of
> openchange-devel-0.9-9.fc14.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> man-pages-3.25-1.fc14.noarch
> 
> What is the right way to get around this conflict. I really probably
> don't need the man page version from openchange-devel, I'd rather keep
> the standard one.
> 
> Is there some way to tell yum to not intall the conflicting file, but
> install all the others ?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris Kottaridis

I you really need both packages and can not wait for a fix, you can probably
do this:
# yum remove man-pages
# yum install openchange-devel 

download to your machine the man-pages package
# rpm -i --replacefile man-pages 

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