yum upgrade trouble

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Aug 18 09:13:01 IST 2008



Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after installing MailScanner via install.sh my yum upgrade gives me
> trouble:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-File-Temp-0.20-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
>
> etc. Any ideas? Is this related to install.sh installing its own perl
> modules in any way?
>   
If you are prepared to stop MailScanner for a little while, during your 
upgrade, you can
service MailScanner stop
rpm -e perl-File-Temp perl-bignum
yum update perl
Then re-install MailScanner (the same version you had before will be 
fine) using the ./install.sh script.
service MailScanner start

Jules

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