up2date -u got RPM package conflict error.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:26:51 +0800, Kevin wrote:

> I have created a rh9 server yesterday (installed everything).After installation completed,I use up2date to get updates.
> There's about 200 patches have been download. When up2date install the 159 patches, the system halted of hardware error.
> I think the problem is conflict of 2 memory banks.
> After I remove one of the memory banks,I run up2date again, got the error:
> "
> RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> package mozilla-1.4.2-0.9.0 is already installed
> "
> 
> Since 159 of 200 patches have been installed,I do not want to use package-skip-list to skip all of them nor uninstall them.
> Never think of reinstall the system, anyone can help me?

More details are necessary. But you should be able to either erase all
versions of the "mozilla" package and re-install it manually. Ignore
existing package dependencies if necessary.

  rpm --erase --allmatches mozilla --nodeps

Then reinstall it with either up2date or rpm.

  up2date mozilla
or:
  rpm -ivh mozilla...rpm(fetch it from your CDs)

There are other ways how to deal with such a problem. E.g. erasing one
package only from the RPM database and replacing the installed version
with an upgrade. But that would need further details on what your system
looks like currently.

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