Re: RealPlayer and HelixPlauer conflicts

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist voyager phys utk edu>]

On Monday 21 March 2005 12:13, Jack Neely wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Can any one duplicate this?
>
> I have a RHEL WS 4 machine that installed with HelixPlayer (in the
> base-x comps group).  During the nightly up2date runs this machine
> attempts to download the update/install the newer HelixPlayer
> (RHSA-2005:271) and also RealPlayer from the RHEL WS4 Extras channel.
>
> I can see from the obsoletes list that RealPlayer obsoletes HelixPlayer.
> However, up2date attempts to install them both and RPM barfs at file
> conflicts right before the install.

I confirm this. After doing fresh install RHEL 4, I tried to run up2date and 
got exactly this. Then I uncheck the RealPlayer and HelixPlayer in the 
up2date window, and tried again. After that I manually installed RealPlayer 
using 'up2date RealPlayer' from command line and it worked.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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