For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like ------------------------------------- Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 ------------------------------------- 1. I don't really see how the man pages can cause conflicts; 2. More importantly, how should I deal with this? [I've updated everything else with yum --exclude=perl* update.] -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Timothy Murphy spake:> For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like > ------------------------------------- > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 > ------------------------------------- > > 1. I don't really see how the man pages can cause conflicts; > 2. More importantly, how should I deal with this? > [I've updated everything else with yum --exclude=perl* update.]Ran into this, too, recently. I don't know whether it's the 'recommended' way, but removing perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 (on a 64bit machine), which was possible without removing anything else, and then updating (which included the installion of perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 fixed it for me. HTH, Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFMsvEDfg746kcGBOwRAugdAJdyBoSwrHhfdq9wGOcT4I4+MwdAAKCkj4qa gcaDmDsde71I8W0JC/2oaQ==Uo2F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>> For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like > ------------------------------------- > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 > ------------------------------------- > 1. I don't really see how the man pages can cause conflicts; > 2. More importantly, how should I deal with this?Simply because both packages contain several identical (as in filepath) files... You try to install two versions of the perl package at the same time. You have an old i386 version and try to install a newer x86_64. I think I would remove the old i386 version and install the newer x86_64. JD