{"id":11044,"date":"2025-07-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:04:23","slug":"how-to-fix-unresolvable-file-conflict-errors-upgrading-or-installing-software-rpms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11044","title":{"rendered":"How to fix unresolvable file conflict errors upgrading or installing software RPMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"11044\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">1    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I install updates on a pretty regular basis and &#8212; most of the time &#8212; they install without a problem. By updates I mean installation of patches and new features for installed software, but not a Fedora release upgrade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent update of the VLC media player on my Fedora workstation failed with the error shown below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Running transaction\nTransaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.\n\n- file \/usr\/lib64\/vlc\/plugins\/codec\/libfaad_plugin.so conflicts between attempted installs of vlc-plugins-freeworld-3.0.21-4.fc42.x86_64 and vlc-plugins-base-1:3.0.21-24.fc42.x86_64  <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this error occurred when updating VLC, I&#8217;ve occasionally encountered similar errors with other software as well. I tried the usual circumventions such as adding <code>--allowerasing <\/code>and <code>--skip-broken<\/code> to the command, but that didn&#8217;t work in this case.  I also removed VLC and tried to reinstall it, but that also failed with the same error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did work was the following command to clean out all the downloaded cache and metadata used by DNF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># dnf clean all<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything worked as it should and VLC is now updated and working as it should. So, if you&#8217;re having file conflicts during an upgrade or update, be sure to use this command to delete all repository cache and metadata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 I install updates on a pretty regular basis and &mdash; most of the time &mdash; they install<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,790,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-system-administration"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}