how did I brea yum?

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Wed Dec 1 16:52:15 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:

> > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
> > cpio: open
> > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
> >
> > Failed:
> >  rdesktop.i686
> > 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
> >
> > Complete!

> 
> Maybe it's a corrupted RPM file? Try:
> 
> yum clean packages
> 
> and see if that helps.

My apologies, I should have mentioned that I already did "yum clean
all", and this error occurs no matter which package I try to update
(rdesktop is just one example). I went ahead and ran "yum clean
packages" anyway and tried the update again, but it made no difference.

--Greg




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