Re: rpm failure

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:57 AM, David Bear <David(dot)Bear(at)asu(dot)edu> wrote:

> While running a yum update on a system, the update fails with the message:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> package postgresql-libs-8.3.11-1PGDG.el5.x86_64 (which is newer than
> postgresql-libs-8.1.22-1.el5_5.1.i386) is already installed
>
>
> I've checked, and I don't have postgresql-libs-8.1.22-1.el5_5.1.i386
> installed. I've installed postgresql from the pgdg rpm.
>
> I've modified all the /etc/yum.repos.d/ files to exclude=postgresql*
>
> I have /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-83.repo that gets v8.3 .
>
> I don't know why rpm thinks I have something else installed. I just need to
> know how to clear the error.
>
> Anyone have any pointers?
>

run rpm -qa | grep postgres - you'll see which postgresql packages are
installed. If you'll find there any 8.1 packages, remove them and install
compat-postgresql-libs from the pgdg repo instead.

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Vladimir Rusinov
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