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DNF Remove Conflicting Packages | How to Resolve

If you have been running into problems during package installation or updates, there is a conflict between the packages’ requirements. These conflicts are often due to dependencies or file conflicts.

In these cases, DNF will refuse to perform actions that will lead to these conflicts by default.

Let’s take a look at how to address conflicts between packages:

1. To begin with, we have to identify the conflicting packages. When DNF reports conflicting packages, it includes information about the packages in conflict.
2. This information will help us understand which type of conflict we have run into:
   • Version Conflict:

     Different packages need different versions of a shared dependency.
   • File Conflict:

     Two packages want to install files in the same location. They wind up overwriting each other.
   • Library Conflict:

     Conflicts between shared libraries can be problematic.

How to resolve the ConflictThere are a few different ways to resolve the conflict:

• Update Packages:

  In some cases, updating the conflicting packages to compatible versions will help resolve the conflict.

  sudo dnf update conflicting-package
• Remove or Replace Conflicting Packages:

  We may have to remove or replace one of the conflicting packages if you do not need it any longer.

  sudo dnf remove conflicting-package
• Adjust Repository Priorities:

  Sometimes, package conflicts pop up due to enabling multiple repositories with different package versions. In this case, we can adjust repository priorities in our DNF configuration to give priority to certain repositories over others.

Our experts recommend using the –setopt flag to simulate the operation and see what DNF plans to do without actually executing the action.

This helps confirm if our solution will work as expected or not.

Once we are sure our solution will resolve the conflict without causing new issues, we can execute the DNF command to perform the action.

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Conclusion

In brief, our Support Experts demonstrated how to remove conflicting packages in DNF.