[ale] picasa error

[Jim Kinney]

OK. So try

rpm -ivh --replacefiles picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386.rpm

If _THAT_ fails, use --force

On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 11:58 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 02/06/2015 10:11 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 09:31 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >> Command line error: no such option: --replacefiles
> >
> > ?????
> >
> > It's listed in the man pages for rpm on my F21 laptop.
> >
> > At this point, do a rpm -qa | grep picasa | xargs yum -y remove and then
> > a yum localinstall picasa-*.rpm . The -U is an upgrade so you must
> > already have picasa installed. If you don't, yum localinstall or rpm -i
> > are required. yum localinstall is the preferred method from F18 onward
> > to avoid notices like "RPM was used outside of yum. Don't do that." Yum
> > makes a nice log of activity in /var/log/yum.log. rpm doesn't do that.
> rpm -qa|grep picasa came up blank
> 
> rpm -qa | grep picasa
> [root at pauls-server Downloads]# yum localinstall  picasa*.rpm
> Loaded plugins: langpacks
> Examining picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386.rpm: picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386
> Marking picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386.rpm to be installed
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package picasa.i386 0:3.0.5744-3 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> adobe-linux-x86_64                                          |  951 B  00:00     
> google-chrome                                               |  951 B  00:00     
> rpmfusion-free-updates/21/x86_64                            | 2.7 kB  00:00     
> rpmfusion-free-updates/21/x86_64/primary_db                 | 143 kB  00:00     
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/21/x86_64                         | 2.7 kB  00:00     
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/21/x86_64/primary_db              |  70 kB  00:00     
> updates/21/x86_64/metalink                                  |  13 kB  00:00     
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ================================================================================
>  Package      Arch       Version            Repository                     Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
>  picasa       i386       3.0.5744-3         /picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386        99 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================
> Install  1 Package
> 
> Total size: 99 M
> Installed size: 99 M
> Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
> Downloading packages:
> Running transaction check
> Running transaction test
> 
> 
> Transaction check error:
>   file / from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
>   file /usr/bin from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
>   file /usr/lib from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
> 
> Error Summary
> -------------
> 
> no joy..
> 
> >>
> >>> It looks like a poorly packaged app as it seems to want to create /
> >>> which has to already exist (!).
> >>> In this case, --force is is OK. You can also tone down the force by
> >>> using --replacefiles instead of force.
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 6, 2015 8:11 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>         is this a bad thing to do?? rpm -U --force
> >>>         
> >>>         I am trying to install picasa in Fed21 x86_64 and I get this
> >>>         error:
> >>>         Transaction check error:
> >>>           file / from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts
> >>>         with file from
> >>>         package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
> >>>         
> >>>         
> >>>         
> >>>         --
> >>>         Paul Cartwright
> >>>         Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
> >>>         
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> >> -- 
> >> Paul Cartwright
> >> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
> 
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