You need to rpm -e 'oldpostgresqlpackagenamehere' to get rid of 7.3 first.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jeremy Smith wrote:
> To follow up on this, I just did try deleting those files and running the
> RPM process again, and received the same errors.
>
> rpm -ih postgresql-libs-7.4-0.3PGDG.i386.rpm
> ########################################### [100%]
> file /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 from install of postgresql-libs-7.4-0.3PGDG
> conflicts with file from package postgresql-libs-7.3.3-1PGDG
> .
> .
> .
>
> Jeremy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] psql not starting up..
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> I have started working on migrating my DBs from mysql to postgres today and
> ran into a problem. When I type in psql, I get this error:
>
> Welcome to psql 7.3.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help on internal slash commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> psql: relocation error: psql: undefined symbol: PQgetssl
>
> It is showing psql as being version 7.3.3 even though I upgraded to 7.4.0
> last night. But when I installed the RPM for the libraries (among other
> things) I got errors like this:
>
> file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libpq.mo from install of
> postgresql-libs-7.4-0.3PGDG conflicts with file from package
> postgresql-libs-7.3.3-1PGDG
>
> should I just go through one by one and delete the files that it is telling
> me I have a conflict with?
>
> Thanks alot!
> Jeremy
>
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