On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:12:55PM +1100, Ben Stringer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:19, Innes Cathcart wrote: > > I'm trying to generate a list of duplicate packages that are installed on my > This should give you what you want: > > rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d > > You will then need to query the outputted packages individually to find > their version info. On my system, only kernel and gpg-pubkey are > duplicates. Or feed your output back into rpm: rpm -q `rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d` or: rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d | xargs rpm -q -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html