[CentOS] Re: Installerror on installation Kaffeine on CentOS 5

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 10 11:42:42 UTC 2007


Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On 9/9/07, Timothy Kesten <centos-lst at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've tried to install kaffeine on CentOS 5 but I get following error
>>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>>   file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplayer2.desktop from install of
>> kaffeine-0.7.1-1.2.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
>> kdelibs-3.5.4-11.el5.centos
>>
>> Any hints to solve this problem?
>>
>> Delete/rename /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplayer2.desktop ?
> 
> Looks like a known bug and a newer version of kaffeine has corrected
> the problem.  Deleting the offending file does not help because it is
> registered in the rpm database.  Fedora Core 6 has kaffeine 0.8.4
> which does not have this problem.  The best method is to get the src
> file and rebuild from there.  In this particular case, the Fedora
> binary seems to install as is (but still not recommended). 

Or I can just build the sucker for EPEL-5.

-- Rex




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