On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:34 -0800, David Boles wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 23:53 -0800, David Boles wrote: > >> Sorry if this posts twice. It did not appear to post. > >> > >> I seem to recall that there was a long CLI command that would list the > >> 'duplicate installs' in the RPM database. These caused false dependency > >> problems because RPM thought the 'old' version was still installed. > >> > >> Example: > >> > >> foopackage-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm and > >> foopackage-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm > >> > >> And there was a way to repair this. > > rpm -e --allmatches foopackage > > > > Ralf > > > > > Thank you Ralf. That is very helpful. > > But what I was thinking of was more like this. If I remember correctly it > listed all 'duplicate' entries. > > rpm -qa | sort | uniq -c | grep -v??? and that is all that I can remember > rpm -q $(rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}'\n' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v '^ 1' | awk '{print $2}')