[ale] dependency hell

[briarpatch.jim at gmail.com (Jim Philips)]

I'm not a fedora user. But my usual way of dealing with this is to uninstall
everything it's complaining about and then try again. Any dependency based
system can have this problem. Ubuntu is no better about it.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> okay, next problem:
>
> I get a notification that a list of "security updates" are available.
> So I start the process.  It stalls with this message:
>
> Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/share/doc/libini_config-0.5.0/COPYING
> conflicts between attempted installs of libini_config-0.5.0-15.fc13.i686
> and
> libini_config-0.5.0-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/doc/libini_config-0.5.0/COPYING.LESSER conflicts between
> attempted installs of libini_config-0.5.0-15.fc13.i686 and
> libini_config-0.5.0-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/doc/libcollection-0.4.0/COPYING conflicts between attempted
> installs of libcollection-0.4.0-15.fc13.i686 and
> libcollection-0.4.0-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/doc/libcollection-0.4.0/COPYING.LESSER conflicts between
> attempted installs of libcollection-0.4.0-15.fc13.i686 and
> libcollection-0.4.0-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/doc/sssd-client-1.2.1/COPYING conflicts between attempted
> installs of sssd-client-1.2.1-15.fc13.i686 and sssd-
> client-1.2.1-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/doc/sssd-client-1.2.1/COPYING.LESSER conflicts between
> attempted installs of sssd-client-1.2.1-15.fc13.i686 and sssd-
> client-1.2.1-17.el5.x86_64
> file /usr/share/man/ma...
>
> I can't tell if the already installed version(s) are the older ones or the
> newer ones. Not sure what to do next.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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