Error when upgrade fedora 36 to 37

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Dear all,
When running command
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=37
Message error

Error:
Problem: problem with installed package mlocate-0.26-300.fc36.x86_64

  • package mlocate-0.26-301.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with plocate provided by plocate-1.1.16-2.fc37.x86_64
  • package plocate-1.1.16-2.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with mlocate provided by mlocate-0.26-301.fc37.x86_64
  • mlocate-0.26-300.fc36.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  • conflicting requests
    (try to add ‘–allowerasing’ to command line to replace conflicting packages or ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)
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Hmm, from Googling, it looks like mlocate is supposed to be uninstalled when plocate is installed. That must not have happened in your case, and it looks like there’s a bug that had some recent activity around it?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2052433

3

The easy fix is to remove the mlocate package, then upgrade. After the upgrade you can install the plocate package if desired.

4

The following did the trick for me:
➜ ~ sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=37 --allowerasing

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