removing command from yum
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Sun Nov 26 16:38:41 UTC 2006
Alexa Pongracz wrote:
> I cannot update or install as I have to remove a command or a request
> from yum.
> When I go to update software I get the message: Cannot open read .xml
> file for repository jahshaka
>
> if I use the terminal To update I get this message:
> Cannot open read .xml file for repository jahshaka
>
> http://repo.jahshaka.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> believe me I don't want to install this any more but need to get it out
> of my yum's memory or will have to reformat. Any suggestions
> appreciated.
David Boles replied:
> You do not have to reformat.
>
>
> Do you remember how you installed this repo? Was it an rpm package? If so:
>
> yum remove <packagename>
>
> yum clean all
>
> yum update
>
> [y/N] your choice
If you can't even get into yum to run yum remove, then
rpm -e <packagename>
will work. If you don't know what <packagename> is, then
rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/*jahshaka*
will probably tell you. Or you could just try
rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/*jahshaka* | xargs rpm -e
Hope this helps,
James.
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