[Nottingham] Conflicting packages?

[chris stones]

These conflicting files are just icons.
if the conflicting files were .o objects or .so shared objects or any 
other type of binary's i would be worried,
however conflicting icons are no problem.

Im a little hesitant to surgest the following, so if you choose to 
follow this advice, do so at your own risk.
however im 99.3% certain what it will be safe to force the install, 
using whatever flags urpmi uses to force,
with plain RPM the flag "--nodeps" was good.

Even if forcing this install causes problems, the solution will simply 
be forcing an uninstall, then forcing the re-install
of the origonal package which the new install conflicts.

if you try it, let us know how it works out.

I think this is just a small human error of someone leaving in an icon 
as a binary dependency.


David Aldred wrote:

>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!
>  
>