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redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL conflicts with file from package...

Posted February 2nd, 2008 in Linux/Unix/BSD

While setting up a test virtual machine using CentOS 4 to do development for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 production server, I ran 'yum update' and then 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"' and got the following error message:

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/lsb_release.1.gz from install of redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL conflicts with file from package redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL

Sounds like a rather circular error message to me, when it's conflicting with itself... However, a simple erase of the offending package and then running the group install again worked fine.

To erase the offending redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL package:

rpm -e redhat-lsb

and then run the group install again:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

and everything should work fine this time around.