up2date RPM package conflict error

[Ryan Williams]

Steve Phillips wrote:
> 
> the second rpm will have been installed with an rpm -i instead of an rpm 
> -U and was probably installed with --force and/or --nodeps, this is one 
> of the reasons why --force and --nodeps are bad.

I may have accidentally used -i on that first update, but I definitely 
didn't use --force or --nodeps.

rpm -e xerces-j gives me:
error: "xerces-j" specifies multiple packages

Ryan