John R Pierce wrote: > fabian dacunha wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine >> >> but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl >> errors and it terminates >> >> OS is centos 5 (final) >> >> the part of errors reported >> --------------------------------- >> >> file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigFloat.pm from install of >> perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package >> perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 >> > ..... > > > have you by any chance ever used CPAN to install perl modules ? > > cpan wouldn't cause RPM conflicts, since rpm doesn't know about what CPAN installs. Chances are he has some perl RPM's from a third party repo.