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RPM update fails with "ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists"
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Description
**Describe the bug**
During cloudflared RPM package upgrade the process fails with error:
```
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists
warning: %post(cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
```
Whole install log from DNF can be found below.
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Install cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64
2. Try to install cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64
3. See error
**Expected behavior**
RPM should be properly updated
**Environment and versions**
- OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa
- Architecture: x86_64
- Version: 2022.2.2 , 2022.3.3
**Logs and errors**
```
# dnf localinstall https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 26 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 34 kB/s | 2.8 kB 00:00
cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm 12 MB/s | 14 MB 00:01
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
cloudflared x86_64 2022.3.3-1 @commandline 14 M
Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package
Total size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Upgrading : cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
Running scriptlet: cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists
warning: %post(cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package cloudflared
Cleanup : cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Running scriptlet: cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Verifying : cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Installed products updated.
Upgraded:
cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64
Complete!
[root@msi-wdp-tunnels-1 ~]# rpm -ql cloudflared
/usr/bin/cloudflared
/usr/share/man/man1/cloudflared.1
```
**Additional context**
After the upgrade the cloudflared was not working. As a fix and workaround for update I removed the package and reinstalled.
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