Colin J Thomson wrote:
On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 00:00, Claude Jones wrote:
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 10:58 am, sean wrote:
on a yum update, yum didn't do cleanup.
Now I have a lot of duplicate packages, e.g.:
rpm -q libidn-devel
libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
libidn-devel-0.5.15-1
How can I erase all the old packages?
You might want to take a look at Synaptic package manager. It will warn you
of the duplicate packages when you run it. It presents a nice graphical
interface that lets you quickly see the packages, select the old ones, and
remove. It will be still be tedious given what you say a couple of posts
later, but, perhaps less so than the command line method.
Indeed, we should mention that Synaptic is a front end for APT :)
I have found (just my experience) APT to handle the "OP's" situations quite
well, however I have never experienced problems with that large number of
dupes.
Just a thought..
Colin
Power outages while updating or shutting down a computer while it is
sgill updating packages can cause this problem. I experienced "multiple
packages" from both sources before (power outage, shutting down in
mid-process). The only thing that was lingering on the system is
actually just the rpm database entries on my messed up systems.
(Corrected using massive "rpm -e older-version-of-package --justdb" )
I believe that I did get away with updating from the yum cached packages
before by changing to the directory with the rpms that yum left on the
system and running "rpm -Uvh *.i386.rpm --replacefiles --replacepkgs" I
cannot recall if I needed to pass the nodep option or not.
In short, battery backups and adding some governing program to prevent
the system from shutting down while critical processes are running would
be a welcome addition to Linux distributions.
Jim
