cant remove firefox.. Yum doesnt work

Vi_rod · 01-19-2012, 04:33 AM

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

# 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....