[ale] picasa error

[Paul Cartwright]

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
>>>         
>>>         
>>>         
>>>         --
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>> -- 
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587


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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587