On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:51 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > 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. ---- FC-5, I probably wouldn't use apt/synaptic rpm -e --allmatches some-duplicated-package I am not sure that exceptionally conservative and enabling livna and kde-redhat repos is an oxymoron. Not that there is anything bad with either repo...just the only exceptionally conservative setup is the default. Craig
