On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Melinda Odom wrote:
How can I just remove this one package, perl-5.8.5-9rhel3.art, so the other conflict errors will go away and not break the whole system?
That's [a replacment for] the base perl package, unless I'm mistaken. Removing that will remove your perl executables and core perl library, which will then have to be re-installed.
As things currently stand, you should NOT install perl-CGI-2.81-89.10, because that's the version for the perl-5.8.0 baseline, not perl-5.8.5, and it would appear that the files it contains are already folded into the perl-5.8.5 package you installed. "Upgrading" perl-CGI-2.81-89.10 would actually be a going backwards.
What you really should do is
rpm --justdb -e perl-CGI
because perl-CGI-2.81-89.10 is no longer necessary in your corrent config.
Your other option is go ahead and allow yum to remove every perl package on your system, and then re-install it again, which will back you off to perl-5.8.0, but that may break something that depends on the newer perl.