Yum Update

[Troy Knabe]

Yes "yum install yum-utils"


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Troy Knabe
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On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:41 PM, David Bear wrote:

> what if I can't find yum-complete-transaction ? I assume its a
> script/executable that should exist somewhere in my file system.
>
> does it also need to be installed?
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Carel Lubbe <
> carel.lubbe at openpolytechnic.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have had a similar problem and got around it by firstly running
>> # yum clean all
>>
>> And then I did a
>> # yum makecache
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 02 July 2009 08:14:15 Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov  
>> wrote:
>>>  From:       Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu>
>>>
>>>  To:         Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>>>
>>>  Date:       07/01/2009 01:45 PM
>>>
>>>  Subject:    Yum Update
>>>
>>>  Sent by:    redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I had to break a yum update and now I see this everytime I try to  
>>> run
>>> yum.  But if I run yum-complete-transaction it says there are 805
>>> packages scheduled to be removed.  This does not seem like  
>>> something I
>>> want to do on my production server, so I am wondering if there is a
>>> way to clean the yum database so I don't get the warning below  
>>> without
>>> completing the transaction??
>>>
>>> "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider
>>> running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."
>>> --
>>> Troy Knabe
>>> knabe at 4j.lane.edu
>>>
>>>
>>> yum clean all
>>>  Runs  yum clean packages  and yum clean headers, yum clean  
>>> metadata and
>>> yum clean dbcache as above.
>>> OR
>>> you can rebuild the rpm database
>>>
>>>
>>> cd /var/lib
>>> tar -czf rpm.broken.`date +%Y%m%d-%R`.tgz rpm/
>>> cd rpm/
>>> rm -f __db.00*
>>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Phebe Mertes
>>> 210-301-6271
>>
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