[ale] picasa error

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 09:31 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Command line error: no such option: --replacefiles


?????

It's listed in the man pages for rpm on my F21 laptop.

At this point, do a rpm -qa | grep picasa | xargs yum -y remove and then
a yum localinstall picasa-*.rpm . The -U is an upgrade so you must
already have picasa installed. If you don't, yum localinstall or rpm -i
are required. yum localinstall is the preferred method from F18 onward
to avoid notices like "RPM was used outside of yum. Don't do that." Yum
makes a nice log of activity in /var/log/yum.log. rpm doesn't do that.
> 
> 
> > It looks like a poorly packaged app as it seems to want to create /
> > which has to already exist (!).
> > In this case, --force is is OK. You can also tone down the force by
> > using --replacefiles instead of force.
> > 
> > On Feb 6, 2015 8:11 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         is this a bad thing to do?? rpm -U --force
> >         
> >         I am trying to install picasa in Fed21 x86_64 and I get this
> >         error:
> >         Transaction check error:
> >           file / from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts
> >         with file from
> >         package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
> >         
> >         
> >         
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> Paul Cartwright
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