On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 20:34 -0600, Bill Polhemus wrote: > Matt M. wrote: > > Everything is downloaded, yum gets to the Transaction Test then I keep > > getting the following error: > > Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man8/blkid.8.gz from > > install of e2fsprogs-1.38-12 conflicts with file from package > > e2fsprogs-1.38-0.FC4.1 > > > > I am a novice at linux so if I have not provided enough info please let me know. > > > I had a similar problem with the 32-bit version. I made a list of all > the packages that gave the transaction error, and simply uninstalled > them with yum, then hit it again. > > For example, in your case I'd just: > > # yum remove e2fsprogs > # yum -y upgrade > > See if that works for you. I would try just removing the i386 version first. # rpm -e e2fsprogs.i386 Given that e2fsprogs contains important tools like fsck, it's not a package to be removed lightly. Paul.
