up2date: not very bright, is it?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Oct 7 21:37:52 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:33, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jack Bowling wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The best way I have found to check for dupe packages is to run "apt-get
> > update". It will bomb if it finds any dupes and you can proceed to
> > delete the bad ones from there. You don't have to upgrade via apt-get if
> > you want to remain "up2date pure". Why up2date does not do a similar
> > scan is beyond me.
> 
> or use apt-get -f or --fix-broken
> 
> Is there a yum equivalent?

'delete the bad ones'

how do you know which dupe to  replace?


-sv






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