[Nottingham] Conflicting packages?

[David Aldred]

Just been trying to update some packages via urpmi....

I've got a general update running as a cron job, and last night it failed - 
all the error messages related to missing  kdebase-progs-3.2.92-1mdk.i586

Just tried 

urpmi kdebase-progs

but it failed at the install stage due to this sort of thing (three sample 
mesages out of quite a lot, but these three contain all the existin files 
with which conflicts are reported):

file /usr/share/applications/kde/kdepasswd.desktop from install of kdeba
se-common-3.2.92-1mdk conflicts with file from package 
kdeutils-kdepasswd-3.2-18.1.100mdk

file /usr/share/apps/kicker/default-discovery-apps from install of kdeba
se-common-3.2.92-1mdk conflicts with file from package 
mandrakelinux-kde-config-file-10.1-6.1.100mdk

file /usr/bin/kdepasswd from install of kdebase-progs-3.2.92-1mdk confli                                            
cts with file from package kdeutils-kdepasswd-3.2-18.1.100mdk


So it seems I have files installed which are preventing the update working - 
one answer would seem to be to delete them and try again, but will that cause 
me more trouble?  Or is this just happening because I'm running urpmi from 
within KDE - should I close the KDE session, use ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a 
non-graphic console, and try again?

TIA for the usual help!
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David Aldred