Comments on: Upgrade FC6 to Fedora 7

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:04:55 +0000

Gaim is antiquated and has been replaced by Pidgin. Try to remove both packages completely:

rpm -e gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc6
rpm -e pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1

Then reinstall Pidgin:

rpm -ivh pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1

Also, Fedora 6 is aging. Fedora 9 was released released back in May this year.

By: Dave Rees

Dave Rees — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:43:19 +0000

Hi, im totally new to linux in fact i just installed it less than a week ago, i have fedora6 but every time i try to update it says theres an error updating, it says (‘file /usr/bin/gaim conflicts between attempted installs of pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1 and gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc6′, (6, ‘/usr/bin/gaim’, 0L)) please can someone help

By: Infogerance

Infogerance — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:49:15 +0000

Already told to remove gaim first.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:30:45 +0000

When I upgrade OS by automatically, I always have below messages.

file /usr/bin/gaim conflicts between attempted installs of pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1 and gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc6′, (6, ‘/usr/bin/gaim’, 0L

I found that the upper part person had same problems.
But I won’t understand because I am not yet skillful enough.
Please, would you explane me the method of solving.
Thanks for your help.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:24:46 +0000

When I upgrade OS by automatically, I always see below messages.

file /usr/bin/gaim conflicts between attempted installs of pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1 and gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc6′, (6, ‘/usr/bin/gaim’, 0L

I won’t understand your commend because I am not yet skillful enough.
I would like to solve this problems.

By: meomeo

meomeo — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:32:27 +0000

thanks a lot ! I have khown it but the update has have error :
Adding for dependencies:
avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-4.fc6
busybox-1.2.0-4
cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4
elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.129-1.fc6
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.7-0.1.fc6
libutempter-devel-1.1.4-3.fc6
lucene-devel-1.4.3-1jpp.14
meanwhile-1.0.2-3.fc6
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1
pygobject2-doc-2.12.3-2.fc6
pygtk2-codegen-2.10.4-1.fc6
qt-devel-docs-3.3.8-1.fc6
systemtap-runtime-0.5.13-1.fc6
Thanks for understand and share . I have litter for learningof English, I’m sorry !
Thanks for all

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:31:12 +0000

Hmm. Without rolling my sleeves up, I suggest your remove the package(s) responsible for conflicts. GAIM has officially changed its name to Pidgin. Your buddy list should be stored on the server, so just remove GAIM altogether. When your upgraded OS is sound, install Pidgin as you wish and then login with your regular account.

By: meomeo

meomeo — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:28:23 +0000

i want to update all packages see it:
(‘file /usr/bin/gaim conflicts between attempted installs of pidgin-2.0.2-3.fc6.1 and gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc6′, (6, ‘/usr/bin/gaim’, 0L))
can everybody show me config error ??? :((

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:51:26 +0000

What you need to do is install both packages at the same time, not separately. So put everything on one line.

For example:
rpm -Uvh fedora-release.rpm fedora-release-notes.rpm

Use the real filenames though. The package dependencies should resolve that way.

By: meomeo

meomeo — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:47:27 +0000

Error to resolve dependen for some packages selectded for installation
Missing Dependency: fedora-release-notes >= 7 is needed by package fedora-release