RHEL 7 / Cent OS 7 – “fwupdate-efi” conflicts with “grub2-common”

Have you got the package conflict error while installing the specific package on RHEL 7 /CentOS 7? Frequently, “fwupdate-efi” package conflicts with the “grub2-common” package in RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 environment. This article will provide the step by step procedure to resolve package conflict errors. In general, if you get such error, you must update the system and retry before taking any action. I have encountered the following error while installing GUI packages (#yum groupinstall “Server with GUI”).

 

Transaction check error:

Transaction check error:
file /boot/efi/EFI/centos from install of fwupdate-efi-12-5.el7.centos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package grub2-common-1:2.02-0.65 .el7.centos.2.noarch

Error Summary
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Solution:

1.  Try to update “grub2” & “firewalld” packages.

[root@kubebase centos]# yum upgrade grub2 firewalld
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.viethosting.com
 * extras: mirrors.viethosting.com
 * updates: mirrors.viethosting.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firewalld.noarch 0:0.4.4.4-14.el7 will be updated
---> Package firewalld.noarch 0:0.5.3-5.el7 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: python-firewall = 0.5.3-5.el7 for package: firewalld-0.5.3-5.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: firewalld-filesystem = 0.5.3-5.el7 for package: firewalld-0.5.3-5.el7.noarch
---> Package grub2.x86_64 1:2.02-0.65.el7.centos.2 will be updated
---> Package grub2.x86_64 1:2.02-0.65.el7.centos.2 will be obsoleted
---> Package grub2.x86_64 1:2.02-0.76.el7.centos.1 will be obsoleting
--> Processing Dependency: grub2-pc = 1:2.02-0.76.el7.centos.1 for package: 1:grub2-2.02-0.76.el7.centos.1.x86_64 

2. Install GUI packages using the following command which had thrown transaction error before.

[root@kubebase centos]# yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"

or 

[root@kubebase centos]# yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'GNOME'
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
There is no installed groups file.
Maybe run: yum groups mark convert (see man yum)
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.viethosting.com
 * extras: mirrors.viethosting.com
 * updates: mirrors.viethosting.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check

You could apply the same logic for any of the conflict errors in YUM. Upgrade the installed package and try to install new packages to overcome this issue.

 

3. If the above-mentioned method didn’t work, try to update the complete system using yum update and try again.

Hope this article helpful to you.