Re: [libreoffice-users] Which Conflicts?

Onyeibo,

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 10:12 +0000, Onyeibo Oku wrote: 

> I made a mistake yesterday and installed 32bit packages (RPM) downloaded from Libreoffice website 
> onto a 64bit machine.  I thought that wouldn't matter much but I was wrong. The icons wouldn't 
> surface on the overview mode (Gnome-3). 
>
> So I removed the packages via yum and got the 64bit packages. Problem is, they wouldn't install 
> because yum reports series of conflicts on files installed by the previous packages. They have 
> been removed! Which conflict again? All attempts to install the 64bit version now fail with this 
> error. Someone has either forgotten to add code that instructs the rpm database of removal of 
> locally installed packages OR ... My machine is b0rked somewhere else. 
>
> So I reverted to 3.3.3 on my network and all went fine (is it because it sees that as a repo?). 
> Why couldn't I install 3.4 (64bits) after removing the 32bit version? It was removed via yum! I'm 
> spooked
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> from twohot@device.mobile :)

Also, check with your distro's documentation, they may tell you how to
fix the problem. Installing the wrong format packages with Linux will
cause problems no matter what the package is so there may some help
there.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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