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Hi All,

Recently when i went to update i got this error message “patch:dbus-1-4962.noarch conflicts with dbus-1-devel.i586 < 1.4.1-7.8.1 provided by dbus-1-devel-1.4.1-7.1.i586”, Now i can’t apply any of my updates as this message keeps popping up!! I’m using opensuse 11.4 with kde version 4.6.00. Any help would be appreciated.

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So, I normally suggest you start YaST / Software / Software Management (You must enter your password to start YaST).

Then, in Software Management I do a:

  1. Options / Allow Vendor Change (Place an X there)
  2. Package / All Packages / Update if Newer Version Available (Agree if there are several Packages to update)
  3. You will then be presented with your choices to remove the conflict. I most likely would remove the file dbus-1-devel.i586 or change its vendor, but I don’t know what else this might cause or why your have this problem.

I normally make the following suggestions to all that have such problems:

To avoid package problems, the most important thing to do is to: NEVER
ignore a dependency, even if YaST/zypper/updater gives you such an option!
In general, never switch to an >inferior< architecture and the solution is
most often to just switch Vendor to the >Packman< repository. So changing
the vendor is OK, but >ignoring< dependencies is never a very good idea!

Thank You,

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All Right. That worked and they installed. Thank you!!!

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All Right. That worked and they installed. Thank you!!!

It is good to hear of your success. And, we welcome you to the openSUSE forums Noob_Za1boot. If you have not seen this, new users should do some reading here:

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Thank You,