RPM database question

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jan 19 08:17:35 UTC 2006


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





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