up2date RPM package conflict error

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:42:55 -0500, Ryan Williams wrote:

> When trying to run up2date, I get the following failure:
> 
> up2date -u
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
> 
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
> 
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> xerces-j                                2.2.1          11 
>   i386
> 
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> ########################################
> RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> package xerces-j-2.2.1-11 is already installed
> 
> 
> Any suggestions on how I can fix this and why it is trying to install a 
> package that it already has installed?

If you run   up2date -p   and then try again, does that fix it?

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