[plug] package installation

[Michael Hunt]

Jon,

I think you will find CUPS is a LPRng replacement. Remove that and then
install CUPS and you should be fine.

Michael Hunt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon L.Miller [mailto:jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2002 8:50 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] package installation
>
>
> I was trying to install a package in rh72 and got an message that
> stated that
> several files from the install package conflicts with the file of another
> package that is associated with an already installed package.  My
> question is
> do I:
> 1) uninstall the already installed package or
> 2) use and -U in the rpm  command to upgrade, although this has
> been tried
> and it does nothing.
> 3) force the installation
>
> The package in question si the cups-1.1.4-linux-2.2.14-intel.rpm and the
> conflicting files are:
> file /usr/bin/cancel from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with
> file from
> package LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/bin/lp from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with file from
> package LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/bin/lpq from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with file from
> package
> LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/bin/lpr from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with file from
> package
> LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/bin/lprm from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with file from
> package LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/bin/lpstat from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with
> file from
> package LPRng-3.7.4-28
> file /usr/sbin/lpc from install of cups-1.1.4-1 conflicts with file from
> package LPRng-3.7.4-28
>
> I used both rpm -ivh cups.... and rpm -Uvh cups....
>
> TIA
>
> Jon
>