On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:48 +0000, H.A.G. wrote: > Now I found one package using this command: > # rpm -qa | grep -i mysql > output: MySQL-server-standard-5.0.7-0.rhel3.i386.rpm > > When I tried to remove this package it gave error: > # rpm -ivh MySQL-server-standard-5.0.7-0.rhel3 > error occurred in service mysql: file or directory are not > available > Error: %preun(MySQL-server-standard-5.0.7-0.rhel3) scriptlet > failed, exit status 1 > > And when I tried to install this package again, it gave error: > output: # rpm -ivh MySQL-server-standard-5.0.7-0.rhel3.i386.rpm > > MySQL-server-standard-5.0.7-0.rhel3 is already installed > > So I can not remove this package and I can not reinstall it. > > Any idea. Hi there. Who supplied the MySql package you are using, BTW? On RHEL3 you can do this: rpm -qa MySQL\* to do a 'globb' search for packages that begin with MySQL, instead of the grep. I assume that you did a typo' and meant to show that you are doing 'rpm -e' The failure you see is due to a script that is being run by the rpm erase command failing, in the %preun section of the RPM's spec file. I suggest that you investigate what the preun scripts are that are being run. You can view them using : rpm -q --scripts MySQL-server-standard It may give you a clue as to why it is failing. If you find that the preun script is not particularly important, you can do the erase with an option --nopreun ie: rpm -e --nopreun MySQL-server-standard This does the RPM package erase without running the preun scriptlet. More information is in the manual page of RPM : man rpm Cheers, Michael -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
