I ran a yum update and have received many file conflict errors that I am unsure of how to resolve. I am running CENTOS 5.1 on an I386 32 bit box. Any direction or help would be very appreciated. I have pasted the errors below.

[root@mail ~]# yum update
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* rpmforge: apt.sw.be
* base: mirror.rhsmith.umd.edu
* updates: mirror.cs.vt.edu
* addons: mirror.steadfast.net
* extras: mirror.cs.vt.edu
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-File-Temp.noarch 0:0.20-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package perl-bignum.noarch 0:0.23-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package perl-IO.i386 0:1.2301-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package perl-Math-BigRat.noarch 0:0.22-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package perl-Math-BigInt.noarch 0:1.89-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
perl-File-Temp noarch 0.20-1.el5.rf rpmforge 46 k
perl-IO i386 1.2301-1.el5.rf rpmforge 99 k
perl-Math-BigInt noarch 1.89-1.el5.rf rpmforge 174 k
perl-Math-BigRat noarch 0.22-1.el5.rf rpmforge 30 k
perl-bignum noarch 0.23-1.el5.rf rpmforge 40 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 389 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


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
file /usr/share/man/man3/bigrat.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/IO.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO:ir.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::File.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Handle.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Pipe.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Poll.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Seekable.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Select.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::INET.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm.gz from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigRat.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigRat-0.22-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigFloat.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::Calc.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::CalcEmu.3pm.gz from install of perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

Error Summary
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[root@mail ~]#

All these are conflicting with the installed version of Perl. Perhaps you should try and upgrade Perl. Do you even use Perl on this machine? If not, you can probably skip over these perl module updates that might have been updated on rpmforge but not elsewhere, etc. I try to find a mirror and only stick to that one mirror so I don't run into conflicts when one mirror may differ from the other and I happen to hit one during a yum update and this dependency type hell begins.

Being very new to Linux, can you advise me how I can exclude these specific files from being updated? Better yet can I remove these files without breaking my system and have the updates then properly run? Maybe just renaming the files?

If you don't use perl or the perl modules outlined, you should be able to remove them without any issues.

Usually you can set it to ignore packages in your yum.conf file.

Make a list of the conflicting packages. Then remove them and their dependencies (add these to your list as well) by running
Then you can run
to re-install everything - in this case yum will take care of resolving dependencies.

This helps when different applications require different versions of a certain application.

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