On Mon May 2 2005 11:10 pm, Raman Gupta wrote: > > My yum update also froze on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system. > Ctrl-C did not work -- after a kill -9, and another "yum update" I was > told that everything was up to date. However, I was suspicious so I > checked my rpm database and there were about 30 packages that had been > upgraded but the older package had not been removed. > > Fixing the problem involved an rpm -e on each of the older duplicate > packages, and then a re-install of the newer package to restore several > missing files that got deleted in the older package removal (seemed like > mostly localization files). I used the yum cached rpm's for the > reinstall, so at least the packages did not have to be downloaded again. > How do you check the rpm database and determine that packages have been upgraded and older ones not removed? I know how to delete old packages, but how do you find the ones that are in the state you discuss? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
