Hi Andy,
This is my fault.  I really had thought I'd updated that page, and now 
that I look at it, I didn't.
I'll update it right now.  But for now, the problem is that RedHat, and 
SL, originally had perl.i386 and perl.x86_64 in our initial releases 
(5.0 and 5.1), but then RedHat took out perl.i386.
There is actually a few other packages where they took out the i386 version.

For your specific problem, on your x86_64 machines you need to do

yum remove perl.i386
yum clean all
rpm -Uvh 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
yum update yum\*
yum update

Troy

Andrew Smith wrote:
> I've been upgrading from v51 to v54. I've followed the procedure on 
> http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x which 
> simply states:
> 
> 	• yum clean all
> 	• rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
> 	• yum update yum
> 	• yum update
> 
> piece of cake.
> 
> The procedure works fine on my i386 machines, but on the x68_64 machines the yum update fails with 
> hundreds of errors that look like...
> 
> ...
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-27.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/utf8.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-27.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
> ...
> 
> It looks like the upgrade is trying to move me from x86_64 to i386. is there a different yum-conf that I should 
> be using? Help appreciated.
> 
> -Andy


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