Edward DeMeulle wrote:
I was afraid someone was going to tell me something like that. There are
a number of packages that are in duplicate and triplicate. I assume that
if I get a dependency message, such as
glibc = 2.5-10.fc6 is needed by (installed)
glibc-headers-2.5-10.fc6.i386
glibc = 2.5-10.fc6 is needed by (installed)
glibc-devel-2.5-10.fc6.i386
that I need to follow it through by checking for dup's on those packages
and then removing and so on...
Just so I understand , are there any cases where multiple versions of
the same package are acceptable?
You might want to install the yum-utils package which contains a program
called package-cleanup. It has an option called --problems which will
tell you what programs are missing items or are wrong in other ways.
After you find out what packages have multiple versions outside kernel
and gpg-key packages if you are running a 32-bit version, download the
latest version of the rpm into a directory. Afterward, run rpm from that
directory with the -Uvh --replacepkgs and --replacefiles options. This
should replace any missing files and remove the remnants from the
incompletely removed older package. If it is a kernel package, you would
put them in a seperate directory and use -ivh instead of -Uvh
If you are running a 64-bit version there are both i386 and 64-bit
versions of some packages that should have the same version I believe. I
only have i386 so am not sure directly how same versions are setup.
Jim
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