On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:01 -0700, Michael Dipperstein wrote:
> I had similar problems with yum thinking that it was updating FC3 on an
> FC4 machine.  I think the solution was to delete /etc/yum.conf.  The
> problem happened on my home PC and I'm not at home, so I'm relying on my
> ever fading memory.

That just results in yum coming up with:

Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf

I've also tried some other yum.confs I found on the net, no improvement.
How do I get up2date to use a different "channel"?

> Have you tried uninstalling the conflicting package before you use yum?
> I had a problem with XFCE installs because I installed non-Fedora RPMs
> before XFCE was included in Fedora.  Then Fedora included XFCE, but
> packaged it differently and I kept getting errors about packages
> conflicting.

Well that's the interesting bit, yum doesn't recognize the package, I
can't seem to figure out how to nuke it with rpm (rpm keeps saying not
installed) and I certainly didn't install it!? Oh well, other stuff to
do...

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