Why does "yum install samba" fail with error "samba4-common conflicts with samba-common-3.x.y.z.arch" ?

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Issue

  • Unable to install samba packages, yum fails with below error:
Error: samba4-common conflicts with samba-common-3.6.9-169.el6.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • samba4

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