I'm trying to update one of my servers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 ), but I'm stopped on this error:



Transaction Check Error: file /sbin/rngd from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package rng-utils-2.0-1.14.1.fc6
file /usr/bin/rngtest from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package rng-utils-2.0-1.14.1.fc6
file /usr/sbin/dmidecode from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package dmidecode-2.7-1.28.2.el5
file /etc/rc.d/init.d/readahead_early from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package readahead-1.3-7.el5
file /usr/sbin/readahead from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package readahead-1.3-7.el5
file /etc/rc.d/init.d/cpuspeed from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.48.el5
file /usr/sbin/cpuspeed from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.48.el5
file /usr/share/man/man8/cpuspeed.8.gz from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.48.el5
file /etc/rc.d/init.d/irqbalance from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package irqbalance-0.55-6.el5
file /etc/sysconfig/irqbalance from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package irqbalance-0.55-6.el5
file /usr/sbin/irqbalance from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package irqbalance-0.55-6.el5
file /usr/share/man/man1/irqbalance.1.gz from install of kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105 conflicts with file from package irqbalance-0.55-6.el5


Please could I have a suggest to solve the issue ?

Thanks in advance

First make sure you have current backups on a different drive, or on a seperate server all together.

Then make sure you have a span of at least 3 hours(just incase you run into problems) to fix it.

Now you have two options, you can either:

1. remove the conflicting packages from the database only(not actually remove it from the drive, but just make rpm think its not there). rpm -e --justdb blah.rpm.

2. download and force install the new package using rpm -Uhv --nodeps blah.rpm.

You don't want to leave the server like this without finishing for too long, as it may interrupt some services.

Just a warning, if you don't feel comfortable doing this.... don't do it...