Yan-Fa Li wrote:
Carl Reynolds wrote:
When I run rpm -qa, I get a lot of duplicate packages with the same version number. Should I remove these packages? If I use rpm -e packagename, will it remove both packages or just the first one it gets to?
Carl.
Use the -f option on apt-get while updating and/or dist-upgrade. This usually fixes it. If that doesn't work you'll have to fall back to manually deleting the bad entries, or you could try rebuilding your entire rpm db.
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Li,
Thanks for your help. I thought your suggestion was going to work. After running apt-get -f update several times, all the errors disappeared, but when I ran apt-get dist-upgrade I got several new ones and then after running it two or three times, apt seems to have erased all the programs from my /usr/bin directory.
I'm going to start over with a fresh install, but then I will have the same problem with apt finding multiple versions of some packages.
I used
rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | sort | uniq -d | grep -v '^kernel'It listed 206 packages with multiple installations.
The problem is that each package has the same version number and I can't seem to find a way to remove only one of them.
How would I clean up the rpm database by hand?
Carl.
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