Thunderbird update problem - SOLVED

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Sun Jun 29 20:49:42 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Yep.  Sure did.  Thanks.



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Mark Haney
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