%pre scriptlet failed error for yum package install

Question

While installing package using yum, i get following error:

$ yum install <rpm_name> -v -y

error: %pre(<rpm_name>) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package <rpm_name>
Warning: scriptlet or other non-fatal errors occurred during transaction.
Verifying : <rpm_name> 1/1
What is this? <rpm_name>
VerifyTransaction time: 0.003
Transaction time: 0.139

How to fix this?

Answer 1

Download that rpm package a run:

rpm -qp --scripts <rpmname>.rpm

This will give you the content of the scriptlet assigned to this package. RPM is trying to execute and somewhere there is an error.