>T. Horsnell wrote: >> 1. I seem to have some duplicate package names (this is on an x86_64 >> system which has only been 'up2date'ed once immediately after >> installation) e.g: >> >> [root@ls1 ~]$ rpm -q tcp_wrappers >> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2 >> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2 > >You may have both x86_64 and i386 versions installed. > >Try: > >$ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' tcp_wrappers Aha. I do indeed have both i386 and x86_64 versions installed for the ones which rpm -V is complaining about. But why does this confuse rpm? Can I tell it to only do one sort? Would this make any difference? Cheers, Terry