Removing duplicate apps after FC6 upgrade from FC5

[Karl Hakmiller]

On Saturday 17 February 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2007 07:20, Karl Hakmiller wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 February 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Karl Hakmiller writes:
> > > > I just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 and have found a dozen or
> > > > more apps left in FC6 from the FC5 installation as well as
> > > > duplicate FC6 applications -- at least that is what Synaptic
> > > > reports.  I was expecting the first sort of redundancy but
> > > > not the second. Any suggestions about the best way to go
> > > > about locating and then deleting the superfluous files of
> > > > either sort?
> > >
> > > Curious -- can you look in your /root/upgrade.log.  I suspect
> > > that you'll find that the %post script from most of your
> > > packages has barfed during the update.  Long standing bug, at
> > > least since FC 3. Bug 178590.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > There were various barfing during upgrade -- scriptlets failing
> > mostly.
> >
> > Viz,
> >
> > /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> > status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> > exit status 1
> > Upgrading xmlsec1 - 1.2.9-8.1.i386
> > Upgrading libXp - 1.0.0-8.i386
> > Upgrading perl-libwww-perl - 5.805-1.1.1.noarch
> > Upgrading xmlsec1-nss - 1.2.9-8.1.i386
> > Upgrading slib - 3a3-2.noarch
> > Upgrading dbus-sharp - 0.63-6.fc6.i386
> > Upgrading hal-gnome - 0.5.8.1-4.fc6.i386
> > /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> > status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> > exit status 1
> > Upgrading pnm2ppa - 1:1.04-13.2.2.i386
> > Upgrading mpage - 2.5.4-7.1.i386
> > Upgrading gnome-keyring-manager - 2.16.0-2.fc6.i386
> > /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> > status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> > 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> > exit status 1
> > (END)
>
> That looks like a similar problem I had with a big update for FC5.
> Here It ended up with 2 versions of librsvg installed, and it
> proved a bit of a problem to remove the earlier version
> "librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386".  With another fresh install of FC5, I
> updated librsvg before doing any of the other updates, and librsvg
> upgraded ok, leaving only the newest version. Then I did an apt-get
> dist-upgrade, and had no problems.
>
> I know it's not much help if you've ended up with 2 versions of
> librsvg, and was a bit of trial and error to get rid of the earlier
> version.
>
> Nigel.

Two versions of librsvg is but one of my problem duplications.  I also 
have a double apt, various openoffice modulues, greo, evolution, 
yelp, seamonkey, and on and on.  I'm just about out of patience with 
using yum remove <app name> (though that is working once the location 
is known; apt-get is hopeless because of the double, I assume).  I'll 
probably just scrub the HD and reinstall FC6.