Description of problem: I was trying to get synced up with Fedora openoffice after having installed the openoffice.org version. I deleted lots of files and rebooted a couple of times and finally came down to errors of the form: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.database.png from install of openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.11.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.3-9238.noarch The odd thing about these errors is that I really did delete the file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.database.png It was just not in the directory when I did 'ls'. The yum file conflicts persisted even after a reboot. The solution was to go into yum and do yum clean all Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.8-2.fc8 How reproducible: Before doing the yum clean all, the error was frustratingly persistent. Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
okay so you have separate items here: 1. removing the file doesn't remove it from the rpmdb's record of the file - so that's why removing the file didn't help the problem 2. when you did the clean all you talked to a different mirror and/or reset your metadata which probably had a fixed (and updated) openoffice which implicitly fixed the problem you were having. I'm going to close this not a bug b/c the error message it outputted for you was entirely valid. thanks