On Feb 23, 2005, at 21:16, Carl Reynolds wrote:

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.

Ew. Not so good.

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.

Yeah, you're out in royally hosed rpm database land...

How would I clean up the rpm database by hand?

First, I'd try:

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpmdb --rebuilddb -vv

If that doesn't work, maybe:
# rpm -e --nodeps packagename
# apt-get install packagename

For all packages...

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