This is the aftermath of problems described in my thread "FC5 unbootable after yesterday's updates" from the past few days. There are some major problems with my installation that I can't seem to resolve. I have multiple versions of programs listed as installed - for example, if I run Synaptic, it says that it detects 92 broken packages; in the list that pops up after clicking the "OK" there are multiple programs listed as having multiple versions installed. I don't use Synaptic to manage the system, but it's a useful diagnostic tool on occasion. I've tried using yum remove and rpm -e to remove some of these multiple packages but the system seems to go through the removal process in a couple of seconds, and refreshing the list of installed packages shows the program version I ostensibly removed, still installed. I've tried "rpm --rebuilddb" and "yum clean all". I'm not sure where to go with this. It's ironic, because I started with a clean install and the intention of keeping the system exceptionally conservative; no additional repos were added except the kde-redhat and livna repos. I did not turn on any development sections of the repos, yet my system is seemingly more badly munged than any I've ever built. Suggestions welcome! -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
