On Saturday 01 October 2005 23:19, Jim Cornette wrote: > 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 > > -- > QOTD: > If it's too loud, you're too old. Thanks. It works. (note: I added --noscripts to avoid problem due to missing script files). Bruno
