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.