<p dir="ltr">It looks like a poorly packaged app as it seems to want to create / which has to already exist (!).<br>
In this case, --force is is OK. You can also tone down the force by using --replacefiles instead of force.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2015 8:11 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">is this a bad thing to do?? rpm -U --force<br>
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I am trying to install picasa in Fed21 x86_64 and I get this error:<br>
Transaction check error:<br>
file / from install of picasa-3.0.5744-3.i386 conflicts with file from<br>
package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64<br>
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Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
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