yum : remove + install problems

[Jim Cornette]

Bruno Costacurta wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I tried to 'ymu remove firefox' but received hereafter errors. 
>Now 'yum list installed firefox' indicates wrongly that firefox is already 
>installed.
>(please see hereafter output).
>
>How to force refresh / rebuild yum database ? Other actions ?
>I tried 'yum clean all' but without results.
>
>Thanks,
>Bruno
>
>(...)
>yum remove firefox
>Setting up Remove Process
>Resolving Dependencies
>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-4 set to be erased
>---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.0.6-1.2.fc4 set to be erased
>---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.0.7-1.1.fc4 set to be erased
>--> Running transaction check
>
>Dependencies Resolved
>
>=============================================================================
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>=============================================================================
>Removing:
> firefox                 i386       1.0.4-4          installed          50 M
> firefox                 i386       1.0.6-1.2.fc4    installed          50 M
> firefox                 i386       1.0.7-1.1.fc4    installed          50 M
>
>Transaction Summary
>=============================================================================
>Install      0 Package(s)
>Update       0 Package(s)
>Remove       3 Package(s)
>Total download size: 0
>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>Downloading Packages:
>Running Transaction Test
>Finished Transaction Test
>Transaction Test Succeeded
>Running Transaction
>  Removing  : firefox                      ######################### [1/3]
>/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7910: line 
>5: /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl: No such file or di            
>rectory
>error: %postun(firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>  Removing  : firefox                      ######################### [2/3]
>/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7910: line 
>5: /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl: No such file or di            
>rectory
>error: %postun(firefox-1.0.4-4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>  Removing  : firefox                      ######################### [3/3]
>/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7910: line 
>5: /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl: No such file or di            
>rectory
>error: %postun(firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>
>Removed: firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-4 firefox.i386 0:1.0.6-1.2.fc4 firefox.i386 
>0:1.0.7-1.1.fc4
>Complete !
>(...)
>
>yum list installed firefox
>Installed Packages
>firefox.i386                             1.0.7-1.1.fc4          installed
>firefox.i386                             1.0.6-1.2.fc4          installed
>firefox.i386                             1.0.4-4                installed
>(...)
>
>
>  
>
To remove all firefox installations that you have listed,
rpm -e firefox --allmatches
Should remove all packages and all entries from the rpm database.

For the record, yum clean all just clears the dep resolver files and the 
downloaded rpms from the /var/cache/yum/ subdirectories. If it does 
more, sorry for the misinformation.

Jim

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