On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:11:33AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/31/15 10:57, jd1008 wrote:
> > Downloaded /usr/bin from install of 
> > google-earth-stable-7.1.2.2041-0.x86_64.rpm from google.
> > Installing it yields this error:
> >
> > Transaction check error:
> >   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.2.2041-0.x86_64 
> > conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-28.fc21.x86_64
> >
> > Is there a way to get around this? 
> 
> Run....
> 
> rpmrebuild -ep google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
> 
> Which will bring up an editor, delete the line
> 
> %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/bin"
> 
> save and quit and a new rpm will be written that can be installed.

you could, alternatively, extract a cpio archive from the RPM and
manually drop its contents into the right places.

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