YUM update dies with confict between poppler-utils andxpdf-utils

[Jim Cornette]

Julius Smith wrote:
 > On 12/19/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
I guess I did!
>> You can remove xpdf and xpdf-utils, update your system and then
>> install xpdf again and it will succeed on installation. (At least
>> it did for me).
>> 
>> Jim
> For me in FC6, xpdf depends on both poppler-utils and xpdf-utils, and
> I can find no way to avoid the conflict without going around yum.  The
> measures mentioned in this thread do not work for me.  I always get:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/bin/pdftoppm conflicts between
> attempted installs of poppler-utils-0.5.1-3.fc5 and
> xpdf-utils-3.01-12.1
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of poppler-utils-0.5.1-3.fc5 and xpdf-utils-3.01-12.1
> 
> I wish yum had a -force option.

You would probably be better served by running
package-cleanup --problems
  from the yum-utils package. This should give information why yum is 
showing a conflict. You might have results using some of the options to 
the rpm program directly, depending on what problems package-cleanup 
outputs. If you post what package-cleanup --problems outputs, a solution 
might be suggested by reviewing the output.

> 
> -- jos

This worked for FC6. Are you running FC6 as an upgraded system or FC5? 
Michael commented about this in reply to your post.

Jim

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