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When you do a yum update, you getting error similar to this

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-server-5.0.91-lxcenter.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386
file /etc/my.cnf from install of mysql-5.0.91-lxcenter.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3.i386
file /usr/share/info/mysql.info.gz from install of mysql-5.0.91-lxcenter.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3.i386

Solution:

cd /var/cache/yum/lxlabsupdate/packages
rpm -Uvh mysql* pcre* --replacefiles --replacepkgs

yum update

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