rpm reports 2 glibc, what can I do?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:50:31 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:

> I'm trying to debug this:
> 
> yum update
> .....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Package dbh-devel needs dbh = 1.0.18-1, this is not available.
> Package samba needs samba-common = 0:3.0.2a, this is not available.
> Package xorg-x11-libs needs xorg-x11-libs-data = 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9,
> this                   is not available.
> Package glibc needs glibc-common = 2.3.3-18, this is not available.
> 
> I found this:
> rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.3.3-18
> glibc-2.3.3-18
> 
> Probably this is the problem.  Obviously, I can't just erase glibc to fix
> it.  What can I do?

You could erase one of the two from the RPM database, e.g. with

  rpm --erase glibc --justdb --noscripts --notriggers

and then wait for the next update. Also have a look at "rpm -V glibc".

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