Installation of virt-who failed with package conflict error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Hitting the below error when trying to install the virt-who package.
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file /etc/sasl2/libvirt.conf from install of libvirt-libs-3.2.0-14.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-2.0.0-10.el7_3.9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/libvirt-admin.so.0 from install of libvirt-libs-3.2.0-14.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-2.0.0-10.el7_3.9.x86_64
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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Red Hat Satellite v 6.

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