up2date RPM package conflict error

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:42, 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?

You (or someone) probably installed the package manually or something like 
that, ie. not via up2date. Therefore the up2date profile in the server has no 
knowledge of this package already installed in your machine, and try to 
update it.

Run 'up2date -p' to update your profile, then try again.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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