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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group __________________________________________________