remove duplicate rpm

[Rahul Sundaram]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> hi,
> I had problem with yum (update oor check-update etc). it always showed 
> hanging there for ever or segfault. I followed suggestions from this 
> list, found there were two scim-libs rpms.
> 
> I did following:
> 
> yum remove  scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5.
> 
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> rpm --rebuilddb
> yum update
> 
> after that it still shows two scim-libs rpm
> 
> removing shows error as follows.
> 
> 
> [root at zhang ]# rpm -q scim-libs
> scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5
> scim-libs-1.4.4-9.8.fc5
> [root at zhang ]# rpm -e  scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5
> /usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules: line 27: 
> /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gtk.immodules: No such file or directory
> error: %postun(scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

If you are running a x86_64 system make sure that these are indeed 
duplicate packages and not just multi lib ones. Details at 
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-ArchSpecific.html#id2977158. 
  If these are confirmed to to be duplicate, you can do

# rpm -e --noscripts <package>

Rahul