Sometimes when you issue a yum install ‘package’ yum stalls on ‘Parsing package install arguments’ message without downloading any package or showing us anything.

To quickly fix this do the following:

First, type ctrl+c and quit the yum process

  1. killall -9 yum
  2. rm -Rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*

At this point, retrying the hung yum command should succeed.
You will probably need to run ‘yum clean all’ after cleaning up the above mess before yum can make progress.

One Response to “yum stuck on “Parsing package install arguments””

  1. 3economyon 12 Jan 2022 at 9:41 pm

    2capable…

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