Re: [CentOS] yum update error

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thus Timothy Murphy spake:

For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386

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1. I don't really see how the man pages can cause conflicts;
2. More importantly, how should I deal with this?

[I've updated everything else with yum --exclude=perl* update.]

Ran into this, too, recently. I don't know whether it's the 'recommended' way, but removing perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 (on a 64bit machine), which was possible without removing anything else, and then updating (which included the installion of perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 fixed it for me.

HTH,

Timo