YUM update dies with confict between poppler-utils andxpdf-utils

[Julius Smith]

For me in FC6, xpdf depends on both poppler-utils and xpdf-utils, and
I can find no way to avoid the conflict without going around yum.  The
measures mentioned in this thread do not work for me.  I always get:

Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/bin/pdftoppm conflicts between
attempted installs of poppler-utils-0.5.1-3.fc5 and
xpdf-utils-3.01-12.1
  file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz conflicts between attempted
installs of poppler-utils-0.5.1-3.fc5 and xpdf-utils-3.01-12.1

I wish yum had a -force option.

-- jos

On 12/19/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Danny Yee wrote:
> > I'm getting conflicts between xpdf-utils and poppler-utils again...
> >
> > I don't understand why such simple problems keep occuring -- surely
> > even rudimentary testing of updates on an "everything installed"
> > box should spot this kind of conflict?
> >
> > (I'd love to be able to ditch xpdf, but until evince is fixed so
> > it doesn't insist on starting up with a tiny window that has to be
> > resized, and it doesn't regularly die and eat all my memory, that's
> > not possible.)
> >
> > Danny.
> >
>
> xpdf is from extras and poppler-utils is from core if I recall. You are
> right in that some communication was overlooked between the two
> entities. However, xpdf only needed minor elements from xpdf-utils to
> function, poppler-utils now provides the needed elements. RPM on the
> other hand is not wanting to walk over another rpms files and is
> complaining as should happen.
>
> You can remove xpdf and xpdf-utils, update your system and then install
> xpdf again and it will succeed on installation. (At least it did for me).
>
> Jim
>
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