list of duplicate packages installed?

[Norman Gaywood]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:12:55PM +1100, Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:19, Innes Cathcart wrote:
> > I'm trying to generate a list of duplicate packages that are installed on my 
> This should give you what you want:
> 
> rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d
> 
> You will then need to query the outputted packages individually to find
> their version info. On my system, only kernel and gpg-pubkey are
> duplicates.

Or feed your output back into rpm:

rpm -q `rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d`

or:

rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d | xargs rpm -q

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