On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 22:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I just installed Fedora-3 x86-64 on an Athlon64 machine. > > [It had been running under the i386 distribution, > but there seem to have been problems with recent kernels > running i386 on an Althlon64 box. > Someone suggested the problem might be connected with cpufreq, > which I was running. > However, it seemed simpler to install the correct distribution > than try to work out what was wrong with the i386 one.] > > The installation went perfectly, and seems to run well. > But when I ran "yum update" I got the error > "file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 > conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9" > repeated many times. > > I have avoided the problem by adding "exclude perl*" to /etc/yum.conf > and am currently processing 599 items. > But I wonder (a) the reason for this problem, and > (b) what one is meant to do about it? See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156658 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005- May/msg00000.html Quick fix: # yum remove perl.i386 Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
