diff --git a/ImageMagick.changes b/ImageMagick.changes
index 7bb1a94..28d963e 100644
--- a/ImageMagick.changes
+++ b/ImageMagick.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar  2 23:03:12 UTC 2024 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- We can not replace a symlink with a directory on the directly
+  Unregister the whole group manually in %pre with
+  update-alternatives. (boo#1220818)
+  Restore Requires(pre) on update-alternatives for the mean time.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 27 20:28:12 UTC 2024 - Arjen de Korte <suse+build@de-korte.org>
 
diff --git a/ImageMagick.spec b/ImageMagick.spec
index 9cadf8b..2186f30 100644
--- a/ImageMagick.spec
+++ b/ImageMagick.spec
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ Obsoletes:      ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-open < 7.1.1.27
 Obsoletes:      ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-secure < 7.1.1.27
 Obsoletes:      ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-websafe < 7.1.1.27
 Obsoletes:      imagemagick-config-7-upstream-limited < 7.1.1.27
+Requires(pre):  update-alternatives
 
 %package -n perl-PerlMagick
 Summary:        Perl interface for ImageMagick
@@ -395,6 +396,11 @@ sed -i 's:%{buildroot}::' %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/ImageMagick-%{mfr_version}/con
 %post -n libMagick++%{libspec}%{cxxlibver} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n libMagick++%{libspec}%{cxxlibver} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
+%pre
+if readlink -q /etc/ImageMagick-7 > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+  /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --remove-all ImageMagick-7
+fi
+
 %files
 %license LICENSE
 %doc NEWS.txt