Thunderbird update problem
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 29 11:41:47 UTC 2008
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?
RPM doesn't allow a file to replace a directory.
# yum reinstall thunderbird
Should fix the issue.
Rahul
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