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Vi_rod 01-19-2012 04:33 AM
cant remove firefox.. Yum doesnt work
 
When I try to remove old version of firefox by
$ yum -y remove firefox
it gives me the following error. (IM using Fedora 11 and im trying to remove firefox 3.5 beta 4 to upgrade it to version 6.

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 11 - x86_64 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >

please help

fukawi1 01-19-2012 04:40 AM
Fedora 11 is well and truly unsupported these days. I would worry about updating Fedora before trying to update Firefox.

Vi_rod 01-19-2012 04:46 AM
But, this is in office environment and upgrading to Fedora 14/15 takes a lot of approval mails. So, we were updating firefox alone. Any method to remove firefox without using YUM?

knudfl 01-19-2012 04:58 AM
# rpm -e firefox
( # rpm -e xulrunner ) ?


If you want to use yum, the repo file must point to "the old archive".
I.e. replace /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora* with this ( fedora11.repo ) :
Code:
[fedora11]
name=Fedora11-x86_64
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

[fc11-updates]
name=Fedora11-updates-x86_64
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/11/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
.

Vi_rod 01-19-2012 06:25 AM
Cool! thanks!!
rpm -e firefox works..!
I could successfully install Firefox 6

Vi_rod 01-19-2012 06:26 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by knudfl (Post 4578656)
# rpm -e firefox
( # rpm -e xulrunner ) ?


If you want to use yum, the repo file must point to "the old archive".
I.e. replace /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora* with this ( fedora11.repo ) :
[code]
Code:
[fedora11]
name=Fedora11-x86_64
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

[fc11-updates]
name=Fedora11-updates-x86_64
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/11/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
.

However I tried to use the above mentioned repos.. but it still gave me the same error strangely!

fukawi1 01-19-2012 01:21 PM
It's not strange at all if you re-read my post....


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