Issue
I'm unfortunately not very experienced in CentOS administration, and was hoping someone might be able to help me understand and get past a small hurdle. I was hoping to run yum update on the system, but ran into some Transaction Check Errors:
file /etc/php.ini from install of php55-common-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-common-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/curl.so from install of php55-common-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-common-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/fileinfo.so from install of php55-common-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-common-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/phar.so from install of php55-common-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-common-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo.so from install of php55-pdo-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-pdo-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlite.so from install of php55-pdo-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-pdo-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/php/modules/sqlite3.so from install of php55-pdo-5.5.11-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package php-pdo-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64
It sort of looks like it's saying that some newer version files are conflicting with older version files. Is there a standard way to fix this? I was mainly just trying to update so that I could install Java later, but wasn't expecting to run into these errors. If it helps, the server is mainly being used for hosting a few websites with apache and mysql. Thanks so much for any help, it's greatly appreciated.
Edit: To add some more clarification, I had previously edited the baseurl variable in the /etc/yum.repos.d/centalt.repo file, which was originally set to
baseurl=centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/$basearch
The reason I changed the location was because I was previously getting an error when trying to run yum update, mentioned in this other stackoverflow question https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132674/repository-metadata-repomd-xml-for-repository-mratwork-centalt which had an answer recommending replacing the URL with
baseurl=mirror.sysadminguide.net/centalt/repository/centos/6/$basearch
Is there a different url I should be using instead?
Solution
You have a non-official repository which provides the php55-* packages which conflict with the official php-* packages.
You currently have the php-* versions installed.
If you want to switch you can try manually installing the matching php55-* package for every php-* package you have installed in one yum command (though that may not work).
If it doesn't, you might need to remove all the php packages you have installed first and then install the php55 versions after that.
Answered By - Etan Reisner Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)