[CentOS] yum update error

[Timo Schoeler]

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thus Timothy Murphy spake:
> For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like
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> 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



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