  | |  | up2date error | up2date error 2005-06-01 - By Josh Kelley
Back Akop Pogosian wrote:
>I am getting the following error when I try to run "up2date -u" on >an RHEL 3 WS system. I seems to indicate that there are problems with >disk space. However, there is over 800MB of disk space in / file >system according to df. So, why am I getting this error? > >Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... >######################################## >RPM package conflict error. The message was: >Test install failed because of package conflicts: >installing package openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-24.2.1.EL3 needs 25MB on the / filesystem > > up2date tries to batch all of the updates at once, and each package has its own free space requirements, so it tries to make sure that it has enough free space available to statisy all packages' requirements at once. If you have a lot of updates to install, this requires a lot of space.
The easiest workaround is to update a few packages at a time. Try running "up2date openoffice.org" or "up2date XFree86" to update a few of the larger packages; hopefully then you'll have enough space to do the rest.
Josh Kelley
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