Thunderbird update problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 29 15:49:12 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 07:35 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Wow, it must be my time for problems with Tbird.  I'm trying to update 
> to the latest version (2.0.0.14-1) in yum but when I do I get this:
> 
> Running Transaction
>   Updating       : thunderbird                                       [1/2]
> Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries: cpio: rename
> 
> Updated: thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.14-1.fc9
> Complete!
> 
> I've tried 'yum clean all', but that doesn't seem to help.  What's going 
> on here?
----
I recall reading somewhere in the release notes (but I can't find it
now)...

upgrade to F9 will not upgrade thunderbird

rpm -e thunderbird
yum install thunderbird 

fixes that

Craig






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