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Goodafternoon,

I am trying to update my pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1.x86_64 package to pcre-8.31 following is my steps to do so:

Step

1: cd /etc/yum.repos.d

  1. Made repository utter-ramblings.repo in it.

  2. Populated utter-ramblings.repo file with 

    [utter-ramblings]
name=Utter Ramblings
baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL5/i386/
gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

  3. Then following command:

    yum install pcre

I got installation process started successfully but with following errors

    Transaction Check Error:
    file /usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz from install of pcre-8.13-1.jason.2.i386   conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1.x86_64

file /usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1.gz from install of pcre-8.13-1.jason.2.i386 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1.x86_64

My OS at VPS info is: OS Linux 2.6.18-028stab094.3

Kindly help me to resolve it.

Halku
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You need to update both archs of pcre in the same transaction:

yum update pcre.{i386,x86_64}

provided, of course, you have a 64-bit copy of this newer pcre as well. Failing that, remove pcre.x86_64 first before attempting to upgrade the 32-bit copy of pcre -- though I'd recommend doing it the other way around and keeping only the 64-bit copy.

michel-slm
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  • Is it right to remove older pcre-6.6 first and then install pcre-8.31. – Halku Sep 24 '12 at 09:28
  • Might not be a good idea if you have many packages depending on it. In that case, if you're rolling out your own newer pcre package, consider renaming it to pcre8 or something – michel-slm Sep 24 '12 at 09:57
  • Try configuring this repo as well: http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL5/x86_64/ -- and see if you can then update both pcre together – michel-slm Sep 24 '12 at 09:58
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I had the same error, and was able to solve it by running:

  • yum remove pcre.i386
  • yum update pcre

The list of packages depending on only the i386 architecture was much smaller than for the entire package (mostly kde in my case) - your mileage may vary, please consider the listed dependencies carefully before accepting the removal.

After this, the 64-bit architecture updated properly to the 8.13-1.jason.2 version.

On another note, I also had to run

  • yum reinstall grep

As it seemed to be linking to the no-longer existing library.

Critical Sass
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Or you can manually install it by downloading RPMs : http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/21060862/dir/redhat_el_5/com/pcre-devel-8.13-1.jason.1.i386.rpm.html

sonique
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You've specified both the wrong distribution and the wrong architecture in your third party repository configuration.

.../EL5/i386/...

But, you're running EL6 on x86_64!

So, instead, this should read:

.../EL6/x86_64/...
Michael Hampton
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