libxml2 on CentOS 5.9

Question

I'm having problems with a CentOS 5.9 web server running php sites. Apparently libxml2 2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2 has a known bug, but there doesn't seem like they've put the newer release into the repo's, as you can't update it using yum.

I searched a lot on this, and also found a few other posts here on Serverfault, but it hasn't worked. I tried Chad's solution here but failed at the last stage. When I tried to do the yum localinstall, it gives me this:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmlcatalog.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmlcatalog.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man3/libxml.3.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386

So, I thought that perhaps I could --force this, but I don't want to do it if it might overwrite something that the system needs, and cause more errors down the line.

On the bug report, Daniel Veillard says there is a fix:

"A single upstream commit seems to fix the problem"

That sentence makes no sense to me whatsoever, and the link he posted did not clarify in the slightest.

I would appreciate any help with this. I see that it's complaining about files from the 32-bit packages, which I find strange since I'm trying to install 64-bit packages. I would think it would leave the 32-bit ones alone.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '13 at 10:19

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I've resolve this problem with downgrade libxml2 and reinstalling PHP

sudo yum downgrade libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python
sudo yum reinstall php php-xml

answered Apr 05 '13 at 10:19

jkucharovic

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Thanks for your response. By doing this, what new version was installed? Or was it the same version as before, but the bug was fixed? – user167772 Apr 05 '13 at 13:52
Yes, it's the same version as before update, but without bugfix. – jkucharovic Apr 08 '13 at 05:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '13 at 16:40

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You have both the 32-bit and 64-bit packages on your system now, so in order to update them you must update them both at the same time with the same yum localinstall invocation.

answered Apr 04 '13 at 16:40

Michael Hampton

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Thank you for your response. I don't know if you know any more about this specific package, but the link I downloaded was named: "libxml2-2.8.0-1.src.rpm" which don't really let you know whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit. There was however next to it a package called "libxml2-2.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm", so I thought if anything, the one I downloaded would be the 32-bit one. But after running the commands of the guide, I still ended up with the x64 packages in the destination folder. – user167772 Apr 05 '13 at 13:51
Um... `x86_64` is the 64-bit package. `i386` is the 32-bit package. `src` is the source code. Perhaps now you can find the correct packages. – Michael Hampton Apr 05 '13 at 15:08

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