Fixing libcurl conflicts in Fedora 41
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Recently, I came across this error in Fedora 41, and I am not sure why the OS installed this library using different versions.
$ sudo dnf update
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem: installed package libcurl-minimal-8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64 conflicts with libcurl(x86-64) provided by libcurl-8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64 from updates
- libcurl-8.9.1-3.fc41.i686 from updates has inferior architecture
- cannot install the best update candidate for package libcurl-minimal-8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package libcurl-8.9.1-2.fc41.i686
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Skipping packages with conflicts:
libcurl x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 809.3 KiB
Nothing to do.
Fortunately, there is a solution to this. Based on this comment from the Fedora forums, we can swap the library to use.
$ sudo dnf swap libcurl-minimal libcurl
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "libcurl-8.9.1-2.fc41.i686" is already installed.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Removing:
libcurl-minimal x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 641.2 KiB
Downgrading:
curl x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 796.2 KiB
replacing curl x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 793.5 KiB
libcurl-devel x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 1.3 MiB
replacing libcurl-devel x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 1.3 MiB
Installing dependencies:
libcurl x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 818.1 KiB
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 1 package
Replacing: 2 packages
Removing: 1 package
Downgrading: 2 packages
Total size of inbound packages is 2 MiB. Need to download 2 MiB.
After this operation, 180 KiB extra will be used (install 3 MiB, remove 3 MiB).
Is this ok [y/N]: y
[1/3] curl-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 283.1 KiB/s | 315.1 KiB | 00m01s
[2/3] libcurl-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 239.2 KiB/s | 361.9 KiB | 00m02s
[3/3] libcurl-devel-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 547.2 KiB/s | 872.8 KiB | 00m02s
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[3/3] Total 100% | 820.5 KiB/s | 1.5 MiB | 00m02s
Running transaction
[1/8] Verify package files 100% | 600.0 B/s | 3.0 B | 00m00s
[2/8] Prepare transaction 100% | 23.0 B/s | 6.0 B | 00m00s
[3/8] Installing libcurl-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 57.1 MiB/s | 819.2 KiB | 00m00s
[4/8] Downgrading libcurl-devel-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 7.1 MiB/s | 1.4 MiB | 00m00s
[5/8] Downgrading curl-0:8.9.1-2.fc41.x86_64 100% | 55.7 MiB/s | 798.6 KiB | 00m00s
[6/8] Removing libcurl-devel-0:8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64 100% | 126.8 KiB/s | 649.0 B | 00m00s
[7/8] Removing curl-0:8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64 100% | 8.3 KiB/s | 17.0 B | 00m00s
[8/8] Removing libcurl-minimal-0:8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64 100% | 22.0 B/s | 7.0 B | 00m00s
Complete!
And then, you can update the system as usual:
$ sudo dnf update
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Upgrading:
curl x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 793.5 KiB
replacing curl x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 796.2 KiB
libcurl i686 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 836.9 KiB
replacing libcurl i686 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 846.1 KiB
libcurl x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 809.3 KiB
replacing libcurl x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 818.1 KiB
libcurl-devel x86_64 8.9.1-3.fc41 updates 1.3 MiB
replacing libcurl-devel x86_64 8.9.1-2.fc41 fedora 1.3 MiB
Transaction Summary:
Upgrading: 4 packages
Replacing: 4 packages