I hit this when trying to upgrade perl on my Opteron box. What's the correct procedure from here? I initially used up2date, which successfully updated everything but perl, so I then tried yum on it. Cheers, Terry. [root@ls1 ~]$ yum update perl Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files base : ################################################## 2852/2852 updates-re: ################################################## 981/981 Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for perl to pack into transaction set. perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.x86_64. 100% |=========================| 269 kB 00:00 ---> Package perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-12.FC3 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing: Update: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-12.FC3 - updates-released Total download size: 12 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): perl-5.8.5-12.FC3. 100% |=========================| 12 MB 00:04 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5---> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 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
