On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:46 +0200, Fabiano Petrone wrote: > hello again > I've FC3 (with latest kernel & rpm packages from RedHat update) > I can't install kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3 from up2date. > The error message is: > > *********************** > install failed because of package conflicts: > file /usr/sbin/smartctl from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3 > conflicts with file from package > smartmontools-5.33-1.4 > file /usr/sbin/smartd from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3 > conflicts with file from package smartmontools-5.33-1.4 > ************************** > > Has anyone tried the kernel-utils-2.4-13.1 installation with --force in > this same situation? > is smartmontools-5.33-1.4 the latest package? (it seems yes) smartmontools is not a Fedora Core package; where did you get it? $ rpm -qi smartmontools You'll need to remove it if you want to install the updated kernel-utils package. Don't use --force; it'll mess up your RPM database. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>