Yum error: .conflict between perl and perl-NDBM_File
 

Greetings,

I am running yum update on a RH 9.0 machine (yum version: yum-2.0.7-1). The following error
crept up while trying to update the machine:

.conflict between perl and perl-NDBM_File

A google of this error revealed:

in rhl 8.0 perl obsoleted perl-NDBM_File
but that obsolete was removed in rhl 9.

however, I am not sure that deleting perl-NDBM_File is the proper course of action.

Any ideas/suggestions on how to stop this error and move forward with bringing this machine up to
date?

thanks a bunch

zepp

I still need an answer to this question...if anyone can cross-post it for me across forum's I would greatly appreciate it...I have numerous RH 9.0 machines that need to be updated and I'm stuck with how to do it via yum or in any other manner....

thanks for everyone's help

zepplin611

rebuild rpm database
 

Hi!

I had the same problem, but it helped to rebuild the rpm database with:

rpm -vv --rebuilddb

After that i could do the rpm -e without getting an error

;-Peter
Yanet.dk

Re: Yum error: .conflict between perl and perl-NDBM_File
 

Cannot confirm that:

$ rpm -qp --obsoletes perl-5.8.0-88.3.i386.rpm
perl-Digest-MD5
perl-MIME-Base64
perl-libnet
perl-Storable

Try to install the packages manually with "rpm -Uvvh" to see where they conflict.