Can't remove package from update manager

Silent-Hunter cheery314 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 21 22:28:39 UTC 2010


  On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, JD wrote:
>  On 10/21/2010 04:49 AM, Silent-Hunter wrote
>>> You cannot do that, since yum searches the remote repo for what is
>>> available vs. what you already have. You have the 32 bit version,
>>> and it sees that the 64 bit version is available on rpmfusion, and
>>> since you do not have the 64 bit version, it tells you it is available.
>>> You could also disable the rpmfusion repo
>>> There might be a way to exclude this package in the rpmfusion
>>> repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d
>>> I am not sure if that is possible. Just a conjecture.
>>>
>>>
>> No, the 64 bit version is in _local.
>
> OK - then search the directory /etc/yum.repops.d
> for a repo file which describes the _local  repo.
> and either
> 1-  delete it
>      OR
> 2- edit it and append to it
> enabled=0.
> If it already has
> enabled=1
> then change 1 to 0.
>     OR
> 3- If the _local repository is a directory on your system, then
>     remove the 6r bit version of the offending rpm from that local
>     repository.
>
> I think it is generally not a good thing to h ave local repositories
> because no matter where you obtained them from, there will
> always be more recent versions on the original server.
> Also, it usualy a very bad idea to mix repos from Mandriva or Suse
> (and other distros) with Fedora because  of dependencies.
>
I fixed it. I found the rpm in /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/ and deleted it.


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