How do I make anaconda skip the installing of a package?

Question

I'm using preupgrade to upgrade from Fedora 16 to 17, and I keep getting an unpack error when installing the cups package. I really do not need cups and I want anaconda to skip it and continue. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

Try clean the cache before updating:

yum clean all

Answer 2

You can Simply Use :

# yum --exclude=cups* update

OR

# yum -x 'cups*' -x 'ifotherpackagetoo*' update