apt-get works better than yum

[Paul Howarth]

Rick Lim wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Kevin
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:54 PM
> To: Kam Leo; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: apt-get works better than yum
> 
> What command are you issuing? use: apt-get update
> <package name>  First of all I do: apt-get update on
> it's own. it updates everything!
> 
>  --- Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>>On Apr 3, 2005 10:01 PM, Rick Lim
>><ricklim at telus.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Who ever said apt-get was better than yum IMHO is
>>right.
>>
>>>On one system apt-get definely worked better, but on another system that I
>>>upgraded from FC1 to FC3 yum fails miserably and so does apt-get, here is
>>>what I get, anyone have any ideas on how to fix this one????
>>
>>>Fetched 311MB in 32m6s (162kB/s)
>>>Checking GPG signatures...
>>>Committing changes...
>>>Preparing...               
>>
>>###########################################
>>
>>>[100%]
>>>        file /usr/bin/kmail from install of kdepim-3.3.1-1.FC3.1 conflicts
with file from package kdenetwork-3.1.4-1

(snip)

> Sorry I should clarify my posting, I have already upgraded from FC1 to FC3
> using the ISO CD rom.
> 
> When I now try to update my FC3 using YUM it fails miserably, which it also
> failed on another FC3 system, on this other FC3 system apt-get worked
> wonderfully.
> 
> Now when I tried apt-get on this system it fails with the above errors.
> 
> I used apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade.

So in fact on this system apt is no better than yum.

You have got an old version of kdenetwork installed, and that is what is 
causing your problems. A vanilla installation of FC3 has 
kdenetwork-3.3.0-5 and an updated version has kdenetwork-3.3.1-3. You 
have got kdenetwork-3.1.4-1. Do you have a duplicate package installed?

What's the output of:
$ rpm -qa 'kde*'

You might also try this to fix the problem:
# rpm -e kdenetwork-3.1.4-1

Paul.