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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