RHEL9: installing "chkconfig" package fails with "Error unpacking rpm package chkconfig-xxx" message

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Trying to install chkconfig package on a RHEL9 system, the following error message is displayed

    # yum -y install chkconfig
[...]
  Installing       : chkconfig-1.24-1.el9.x86_64                                                                                                         1/1
Error unpacking rpm package chkconfig-1.24-1.el9.x86_64
  Verifying        : chkconfig-1.24-1.el9.x86_64                                                                                                         1/1
Installed products updated.

Failed:
  chkconfig-1.24-1.el9.x86_64

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
    • chkconfig

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