error: trying to remove "yum", which is protected
Trying to update one of the my VPS today with sudo yum update
command and encounter this funky error message :
error: trying to remove "yum", which is protected
From the output :
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64 (@updates)
Requires: coreutils = 8.4-31.el6_5.2
Removing: coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64 (@updates)
coreutils = 8.4-31.el6_5.2
Updated By: coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64 (base)
coreutils = 8.4-37.el6
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 31 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
and issuing the sudo yum --skip-broken
command will work but give this hint for what is causing the funky error :
error: Failed dependencies:
coreutils-libs = 8.4-31.el65.2 is needed by (installed) coreutils-8.4-31.el65.2.x86_64
seems like the package coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64
is causing the problem with dependencies issue
SOLUTION :
To fix this funky error, use the rpm- e --justdb <package name>
command and in my own example here, I'll just issue
> sudo rpm -e --justdb coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64
and than
> sudo yum update
bingo! all packages updated.
By Adam Ng
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