RPM database question
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 18:17:07 UTC 2006
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.
>
> Would someone please post this if it is still an option? Or another
> solution?
If you don't actually want to remove, then you can do:
rpm -e --justdb.
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