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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 172

Upgrade issue: /bin/csh exists in filesystem

So I haven't upgraded in a while since I've been too lazy to fix this.  How do I fix this?  I'm afraid I'll mess something up if i delete /bin/csh...or is that the fix lol.

(65/65) checking for file conflicts                 [##########################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
tcsh: /bin/csh exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

kett

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 104

Re: Upgrade issue: /bin/csh exists in filesystem

If its something you need, back it up then delete it.  If you've never edited it, then I'd just delete it.  So basically, yes, deleting it is the fix.  I believe you can run the install with -f flag to force it as an alternative.  I usually just delete the file.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Upgrade issue: /bin/csh exists in filesystem

In this case, it's safe to force the install. The csh and tcsh binaries in the package have been moved from /usr/bin to /bin. Probably the /bin/csh currenly on your system is a symlink to /usr/bin/csh that you manually created.

Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 172

Re: Upgrade issue: /bin/csh exists in filesystem

Awesome forcing it worked great