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Yum update causes conflicts with file from package

Posted by plattapuss on June 18th, 2008

Apparently I am not the only one with this issue. My server runs MailScanner which requires perl-IO. If you have the latest version of perl on your system with yum, you might run into these errors:

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  1. Transaction Check Error:
  2.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  3.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Dir.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  4.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::File.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  5.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Handle.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  6.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Pipe.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  7.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Poll.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  8.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Seekable.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  9.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Select.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  10.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  11.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::INET.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  12.   file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

On this site, the solution which worked rather well was this:

First you need to find out which repository is causing the problems. For perl-IO, chances are, you are using rpmforge (dag.wieers.com). If this is the case, then use my commands below as they are. If you are using a different repository, then change rpmforge for your problem repository.

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  1. cd /var/cache/yum/rpmforge/packages
  2. rpm -Uvh --force perl-IO<tab>

Note that the means to hit the tab key, and auto complete will choose the right rpm for you.

On my system I had four rpm's that were not installing as they should. Although I do not recommend forcing the install of any rpm, this solution did work, and restarting MailScanner fixed all my issues.



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