Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Andrew Elwell wrote:

> I'm having problems installing perl-MIME-Base64-3.07-1.el4.rf from DAG
> (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-MIME-Base64/ )
[...]
> Transaction Check Error:   file
> /usr/share/man/man3/MIME::Base64.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MIME-Base64-3.07-1.el4.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
>  file /usr/share/man/man3/MIME::QuotedPrint.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MIME-Base64-3.07-1.el4.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
>
> I know that SL folks aren't responsible for DAGs rpms, but can someone
> suggest the easiest way round this?

install it with "rpm -i --excludedocs"? Using yum-tsflags, it may be 
possible to do it with yum as well. I'm not sure whether updating this 
package later will work.

Regards,
 	Stephan

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