How can I resolve this conflict that's preventing updates?

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Hi, I’m running into an issue where the final RPM transaction fails because a package has file conflicts. I’m on Fedora 43 - trying to update everything before upgrading to 44.

See here:

Running transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
  - file /usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64
  - file /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64
  - file /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64
  - file /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64
  - file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64
  - file /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo from install of elfutils-libelf-0.195-1.fc43.i686 conflicts with file from package elfutils-libelf-0.194-1.fc43.x86_64

Anyone know what I can do?
Thanks for reading

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Try upgrading that one specific package.
To me it looks like the mirror you are using may be out of date since that complaint is about version mismatch.

I see this

$ dnf list --available elfutils-libelf
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
elfutils-libelf.i686   0.195-1.fc43 updates
elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0.195-1.fc43 updates-archive
elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0.195-1.fc43 updates

It may just be the dnf cache on your system is out of date.
Try the update with using the --refresh option to ensure you only have current metadata in the dnf cache.

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Thanks for the quick reply.
I fixed it by running dnf distro-sync. I tried running dnf up —refresh first, but that resulted in the same error. Regardless, I appreciate your assistance.

I’m not sure why I didn’t try this earlier; I think I misunderstand how the distro-sync option works, because I assumed it just updates the repositories from the internet, but I saw this happening when I ran dnf upgrade normally.

Anyways. Crisis averted, haha.