yum install conflicts with files

yum update or yum install fails with package conflict between 64 bit and 32 bit package architectures ?

 SOLUTION VERIFIED - Updated July 29 2014 at 4:01 PM - 

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Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• 64 bit architecture
• 32 bit packages installed sharing some files with the 64 bit ones

Issue

• Files are conflicting between 64 and 32 bit packages, how to fix it ?
• yum update or yum install fails with package conflict between 64 bit and 32 bit package architectures.
• 32 bit package showing conflict problem with 64 bit package.

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Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/ca.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.1.i686
file /usr/share/man/man1/req.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.1.i686
file /usr/share/man/man1/x509.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.1.i686

Resolution

You can configure the yum client to update only a package of the exact architecture installed on the system.

Perform the following steps to remove duplicate packages(i.e. 32-bit and 64-bit packages installed on server which is causing the dependency issues).

1. Install the yum-utils package:

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   # yum install yum-utils
   

2. The package-cleanup --dupes lists all duplicate packages:

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   # package-cleanup --dupes        
   

3. The package-cleanup --cleandupes removes the duplicates (it asks for a confirmation to remove all duplicates unless the -y switch is given):

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   # package-cleanup --cleandupes   
   

4. Edit /etc/yum.conf, set the following line:

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   exactarch=1
   

5. Run yum command:

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   # yum clean all
   # yum update
   

If the conflict is only due to the fact that yum isn't trying to update the 32 bit packages along with the 64 bit ones, this will solve the conflict.

Note: If all above procedure fail, you can also check your exclude content in /etc/yum.conf file. Sometimes 32Bits Packages are in the yum blacklist and system will prevent it to install and you will see the Transaction Check Error.

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# grep -i exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=kernel*,*.i?86

Note 2: In case the systems cannot be connected to the internet for security reasons, one could replace the files with the rpm command as follow:

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rpm -Uvh --replacefiles openssl-*.rpm

Diagnostic Steps

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Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/include/libdevmapper-event.h from install of device-mapper-1.02.67-2.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/include/libdevmapper.h from install of device-mapper-1.02.67-2.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man8/dmeventd.8.gz from install of device-mapper-1.02.67-2.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man8/dmsetup.8.gz from install of device-mapper-1.02.67-2.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64
  file /etc/odbcinst.ini from install of unixODBC-libs-2.2.11-10.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.x86_64
  file /usr/bin/passmass from install of expect-5.43.0-8.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package expect-5.43.0-5.1.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/expect.1.gz from install of expect-5.43.0-8.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package expect-5.43.0-5.1.x86_64
  file /etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile from install of openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.x86_64
  file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt from install of openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/ca.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/req.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/x509.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.x86_64
  file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_fonts.ps from install of ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package ghostscript-8.70-6.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_res.ps from install of ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package ghostscript-8.70-6.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/lib/PDFA_def.ps from install of ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package ghostscript-8.70-6.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/gs.1.gz from install of ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package ghostscript-8.70-6.el5.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz from install of openldap-2.3.43-25.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_5.3.x86_64

• Product(s) 
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Component 
• rpm 
• yum

• Category 
• Troubleshoot

• Tags 
• rhel 
• rpm 
• yum

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