tip: automated way to delete duplicate rpms

[David Timms]

Kim Lux wrote:
> I recently updated a server from fc3 to fc6.  All seemed to go well
> except the first yum attempt to update the machine failed and when I
> entered synaptic I received a ton of errors about duplicate rpms
> installed on the machine.  I've run into this issue before.
> Unfortunately neither yum nor synaptic has a way to deal with it, as far
> as I can tell.   
> 
> Rather than manually go through the list of offending rpms and delete
> them, I did things semi automatically.  There were 120 duplicate rpms on
> my machine, so manually typing the full package names would have taken a
...
> This process quickly and correctly removed the duplicate rpms from my
> machine. 
> 
> I hope this helps someone. 

There is a tool available to solve duplicate package problems: see
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-December/009451.html

It seems to work fine, no heroics {like Kim used above} were required.

DaveT.