Created attachment 1337446 [details] Possible explanation (from email convo) Description of problem: I upgraded from Fedora 24 to Fedora 26 last week. I then tried to do `dnf update' and got a failure with the npm package update: Error unpacking rpm package npm-1:3.10.10-1.6.11.3.1.fc26.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/doc: cpio: rename npm-1:3.10.10-1.6.11.3.1.fc26.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not! The version of the installed npm package was: npm x86_64 1:2.15.11-6.fc24 @updates 0 I worked around the problem by `dnf erase'ing the npm package, removing /usr/lib/node_modules/npm completely and then `dnf install'ing npm, which installed the new version successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: It's difficult to say: it may be that I hit it because of the peculiarities of my installation. OTOH, the update should have succeeded. Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf update npm 2. 3. Actual results: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/doc: cpio: rename Expected results: Successful update of npm package. Additional info: A possible explanation: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm included a couple of directories (doc and html), apparently created by the installation of the old version. The new version install wanted to change those to symlinks and apparently failed. The above was suggested by Adam Williamson in an email conversation (some portions of which are attached to this BZ).
I encountered the exact same problem. Could work around by: sudo dnf remove npm sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/node_modules/npm sudo dnf install npm
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