RPM database question

[Neal Becker]

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.