Unable to update Perl on RHEL 5.2

[Denis Beauchemin]

Hello list,

I am not able to update Perl because of conflicts with RPMs installed by 
MS.  Any ideas on how to force install it?

Thanks!

Denis
# yum -y update perl
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
 perl                    i386       4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3  
rhel-i386-server-5   12 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       1 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 12 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO.pm from install 
of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Dir.pm from 
install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/File.pm from 
install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm from 
install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm from 
install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so from 
install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Dir.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::File.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Handle.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Pipe.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Poll.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Seekable.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Select.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::INET.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Temp.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-File-Temp-0.19-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-File-Temp-0.19-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigFloat.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt/CalcEmu.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigFloat.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::Calc.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::CalcEmu.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigRat.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigRat-0.19-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigRat.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package 
perl-Math-BigRat-0.19-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bigint.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bignum.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bigrat.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1
  file /usr/share/man/man3/bigrat.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1

Error Summary
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