I'm trying to install the latest plesk (psa) using yum. I know on a clean machine it works, but theres been a botched previous install, m,anually using rpms, before the yum repos was available. Basically I'm in the situation where I can't install it because yum (& rpm) thinks its already in and ok, but its not, so I try to remove it but the remove job has a dependancy on a db entry which will not be satisfied (and possibly others even if I got past that one): [root@xxx Populate]# yum remove psa Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package psa.i586 0:7.5.2-fc2.build75050128.11 set to be erased --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing: Remove: psa.i586 0:7.5.2-fc2.build75050128.11 Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction packagemng: db_connect: failed to connect to database: Error: Unknown database 'psa' packagemng: db_connect: failed to connect to database: Error: Unknown database 'psa' packagemng: Unable to connect to the mysql database ... error: %trigger(psa-7.5.2-fc2.build75050128.11.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 The database "psa" truly does not exist. Yet: [root@xxx Populate]# rpm -q psa psa-7.5.2-fc2.build75050128.11 And [root@xxx Populate]# yum install psa Setting up Install Process Setting up Repo: livna-stable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: fedora-unstable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: fedora-stable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: livna-unstable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: livna-testing repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: fedora-testing repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: atomic repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files livna-stab: ################################################## 168/168 fedora-uns: ################################################## 10/10 fedora-sta: ################################################## 550/550 livna-unst: ################################################## 52/52 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 285 kB 01:03 MD Read : ################################################## 685/685 updates-re: ################################################## 685/685 livna-test: ################################################## 45/45 base : ################################################## 2622/2622 fedora-tes: ################################################## 79/79 atomic : ################################################## 89/89 Nothing to do I don't mind literally ripping all rpm refs to it just in order to get it installed - if I only knew how!!! I did create an empty psa db and tried again. The script then whined about missing table entries, I suspect following that path would take a stupid amount of time compared to asking on this list!!! Thanks.
