In FC3, I tried to update the following packages through up2date: openoffice.org openoffice.org-i18n openoffice.org-libs These were to be updated from 1.1.2-11.4.fc2 to 1.1.2-11.5.fc3 (i386 architecture) using the updates-released-fc3 channel. This was a bit odd since my architecture is x86_64 (I used FC3-x86_64-disc?.iso for my update; my FC2 install was also for x86_64)). But I suppose that there is no x86_64 package for Open Office. At any rate, I got the following error message: ------------------------- Test install failed because of package conflicts: The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Name Version Release -------------------------------------- audiofile 0.2.6 1 audiofile 0.2.6 1 esound 0.2.35 2 esound 0.2.35 2 evolution-data-server 1.0.2 3 gnutls 1.0.20 3 libgcrypt 1.2.0 3 libgnome 2.8.0 2 libgpg-error 1.0 1 libsoup 2.2.1 1 alsa-lib 1.0.6 5 package audiofile-0.2.6-1 is already installed package esound-0.2.35-2 is already installed ------------------------- Some background about my computer: I had recently upgraded from FC2 to FC3. I first did a backup. My first upgrade attempt led to a non-booting system. I restored from backup (without reformatting first--so new files from FC3 were still there). A web search of my symptoms led me to the problem: I had forgotten to change xorg.conf to use the nv video driver rather than the nvidia one (necessary because the nvidia driver requires a reinstallation with each new kernel). So I made the change and tried again. This time it booted fine. I'm not sure I understand the error message correctly. The best I can figure is that the Open Office update requires I install release 1, version 0.2.6 of the audiofile package which I can't do because I already have release 1, version 0.2.6 of the audiofile package installed (and similarly for esound). I'm *guessing* that Open Office depends on FC3 packages of audiofile and esound, but that I have FC2 packages already installed. I'm *guessing* that rpm does not want to install the FC3 packages over the FC2 packages with the same version number--and that this includes audiofile and esound. My best guess is to remove the audiofile and esound packages (ignoring dependencies) and then try to update Open Office again. But I would like to do a *little* better than a guess. :-) Advice? Thanks in advance. __________________ jmnorris
