f9 kde conflicts - 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, blah, blah. blah f*&(*&ing blah

[Mads Kiilerich]

Jerry Amundson wrote:
> Nope, same error.
> I assume these package dup's are odd. Next, I may just re-install of
> this box anyway, rather than attempt fixing...
> [root at jerry-d600f9 ~]# rpm -qa kde\* | sort
> kdeaccessibility-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
> kdeartwork-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
> kdebase3-pim-ioslaves-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386
> kdebase3-pim-ioslaves-3.5.9-10.fc9.i386
>   

When I see such double packages then it is usually because an rpm 
session was interupted after the new package was installed but before 
the old was cleaned up.

I just remove the old packages:
package-cleanup --orphans > orph
vi orph # remove packages I would like to keep
rpm -e $(cat orph)

(or in case of problems with dependencies I do it one a time with
for a in $(cat orph); do rpm -e $a; done
a couple of times)

Or more brutally:
rpm -qa --qf="%{name}\n" kde* > reinstall
rpm -e --nodeps $(rpm -qa kde*)
yum install $(cat reinstall)

/Mads