On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:48:05 +0100
Jason Viloria <jnvilo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help me out fix this confit please? System is F14 64bit.
> Need glibc.i686 to get skype to work.
>
> problem: yum install glibc.i686 fails with:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of
> glibc-2.12.90-19.i686 conflicts with file from package
> glibc-2.12.90-17.x86_64

You'll need to update the x86_64 version to the same version of the
32-bit package you're trying to install. So either run

# yum update
followed by
# yum install glibc.i686

or, to update just the 64-bit glibc package run

# yum install glibc.i686 glibc.x86_64

thanks, I should mention that I have tried the following already:

yum update [goes just fine and no new updates needed to be done]
yum  install glibc.i686

and I get:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of glibc-2.12.90-19.i686 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.12.90-17.x86_64


and doing : yum upgrade glibc

gives:

Transaction Check Error:
  package glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 (which is newer than glibc-2.12.90-17.i686) is already installed
  package glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 is already installed
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS from install of glibc-2.12.90-17.i686 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.12.90/NEWS conflicts between attempted installs of glibc-2.12.90-19.x86_64 and glibc-2.12.90-17.i686

Error Summary


It seems my rpmdb is somewhat fubard?

/jnvilo