[mythtv-users] Difficulty upgrading system

[John Pilkington]

On 06/12/16 02:36, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This isn't a myth-specific question but involves myth components so I
> thought I would ask here.
>
> I am trying to upgrade my system, including from Fedora 23 to 24.  I am
> using the dnf upgrade tool, but run into this stopper:
>
> Error: Transaction check error:
>   file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia-lib64.conf conflicts between attempted
> installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-1:340.98-1.fc24.x86_64 and
> nvidia-driver-cuda-libs-2:375.20-2.fc24.x86_64
>   file /usr/share/man/man4/lirc.4.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of man-pages-4.06-2.fc24.noarch and lirc-core-0.9.3a-4.fc24.x86_64
>

First I would try

rpm -e --nodeps nvidia-driver-cuda-libs

rpm -e --nodeps lirc-core

I just did the f23 > f24 upgrade too, with --allowerasing.  That seemed 
to go smoothly, but now I have a gcc 6.2.1 path-problem in building Myth 
master.  Posted on the dev list.

John P

>
> I have googled, and it appears that I should remove lirc-core (and
> probably all my nvidia packages) and then do the upgrade and re-install.
>
> My concern is whether I will lose my configurations if I do that.  Lirc
> is a PITA to set up and whenever I have to start from scratch, it
> becomes an all day project.
>
> Some guidance would be greatly appreciated before I remove the lirc
> package and have to reinstall it.  Do I need to redo my config files?
> (Nvidia I think I can handle fine.)
>
> Thanks
>
>
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