I'm having problems with a CentOS 5.9 web server running php sites. Apparently libxml2 2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2 has a known bug, but there doesn't seem like they've put the newer release into the repo's, as you can't update it using yum.
I searched a lot on this, and also found a few other posts here on Serverfault, but it hasn't worked. I tried Chad's solution here but failed at the last stage. When I tried to do the yum localinstall, it gives me this:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man1/xmlcatalog.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.2.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/xmlcatalog.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386
file /usr/share/man/man3/libxml.3.gz from install of libxml2-2.7.8-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386
So, I thought that perhaps I could --force this, but I don't want to do it if it might overwrite something that the system needs, and cause more errors down the line.
On the bug report, Daniel Veillard says there is a fix:
"A single upstream commit seems to fix the problem"
That sentence makes no sense to me whatsoever, and the link he posted did not clarify in the slightest.
I would appreciate any help with this. I see that it's complaining about files from the 32-bit packages, which I find strange since I'm trying to install 64-bit packages. I would think it would leave the 32-bit ones alone.
Best Answer
You have both the 32-bit and 64-bit packages on your system now, so in order to update them you must update them both at the same time with the same
yum localinstallinvocation.