I’ve been having difficulties trying to update a Fedora 8 installation with yum. When I execute “yum update” I received the following error:

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib/libsensors.so.3 from install of lm_sensors-2.10.6-1.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package libsensors3-2.10.5-52.fc6.i386

When I try to remove lm_sensors, a bunch of dependant packages want to be removed, too (but that is not what I want).

I noticed there was a nagios plugin that was being updated called nagios-plugins-sensors. Removing that allowed me to successfully perform a yum update!

So, I typed yum erase nagios-plugins-sensors and yum removed the following:

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
nagios-plugins-sensors i386 1.4.8-9.fc8 installed 1.1 k
Removing for dependencies:
nagios-plugins-all i386 1.4.8-9.fc8 installed 0.0

Success!

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