Error in PREUN scriptlet … file was supposed to be removed but is not

Sometimes a yum/RPM package would get “stuck” and just won’t go away. Actually usually the package is already gone but yum/rpm fails to update it’s internal DB and still thinks it is there. The error one usually sees in such cases is something like: Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package stlinux23-sh4_uclibc-which stlinux23-sh4_uclibc-which-2.16-5.sh4_uclibc was supposed […]

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How do I add a new RPM/yum repo in Fedora

To enable a new RPM (yum) repository add a new .repo file for it under /etc/yum.repos.d. For example, to add a repository to install google’s Chrome browser add a file (e.g. google.repo) in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and copy the following into it: [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 64-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub You may also append the […]

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