fedora errors

[Ian Malone]

2008/7/11 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com>:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>> Glen Grantham wrote:
>>>
>>> My system is an AMD 64 Athlon X2 4600+ on a
>>> GIGABYTE  S-Series GA-MA74GM-S2H motherboard
>>> with a 320GB EIDE WD Caviar SE 7200RPM Hard Drive
>>>
>>> 64 bit Fedora Linux Identity Kit
>>>
>>> ERROR List from upgrade after initial installing system with Fedora 8
>>>
>>> When I try to install the 280 or so upgraded pacaages I get this:
>>>
>>> file /usr/lib/libnm-util.so.0.0.0 from install of
>>> NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.9.svn3675.fc8 conflicts with file from package
>>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.5.svn3030.fc8
>>> file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf from install of
>>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.9.svn3675.fc8 conflicts with file from package
>>
>> Well, we didn't really need every single line, since most of them are
>> similar to the first 2 or three listed.  However, try removing Network
>> Manager and then installing it.  That should get you the upgraded version
>> and getting rid of the errors you are seeing.
>
> The problem is that NM does NOT provide the 32-bit libraries any more in
> the multilib (64- and 32-bit) environment.  To fix:
>
>        yum remove NetworkManager.i386
>
> since you don't need the 32-bit version.  Then "yum update" should work.
>

I had the same problem with NetworkManager updates. I've just tried
'yum remove NetworkManager.i386' and, intriguingly:

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
 NetworkManager          i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
installed         2.4 M
Removing for dependencies:
 NetworkManager-glib     i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
installed         103 k
 NetworkManager-openvpn  i386       1:0.7.0-8.svn3302.fc8  installed
      486 k
 NetworkManager-vpnc     i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8
installed         309 k
 evolution               i386       2.12.3-5.fc8     installed          36 M


As I don't use evolution on this machine (and probably have the 64bit
version anyway), I don't care too much, but this seems to be a bizarre
dependency chain.

-- 
imalone