RPM database question

[David Boles]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 23:53 -0800, David Boles wrote:
>> Sorry if this posts twice. It did not appear to post.
>>
>> I seem to recall that there was a long CLI command that would list the
>> 'duplicate installs' in the RPM database. These caused false dependency
>> problems because RPM thought the 'old' version was still installed.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> foopackage-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm    and
>> foopackage-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm
>>
>> And there was a way to repair this.
> rpm -e --allmatches foopackage
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
Thank you Ralf. That is very helpful.

But what I was thinking of was more like this. If I remember correctly it
listed all 'duplicate' entries.

rpm -qa | sort | uniq -c | grep -v???   and that is all that I can remember

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  David