On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 14:09 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
When doing yum operations I get this message at the end of whatever yum was doing:
** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: brscan4-0.4.8-1.x86_64 is a duplicate with brscan4-0.4.3-1.x86_64
It is true, if I do "rpm -qa | grep brscan" it shows two of them.
what's the best/proper way to deal with this? -remove both, reinstall one? -remove one? which one? I don't see a feature in rpm (or yum) for removing a single one of duplicate packages. How?
In general I try and remove the older one - you can remove specific versions of duplicates by specifying their full name including the version. i.e.
yum remove brscan4-0.4.3-1
but you need to pay particular attention to any warnings or examine which other packages yum might want to remove. There will be a reason why two versions ended up being installed (usually there's a bug or an install got interrupted half way through). It might be easier to remove the more recent one first, then do another update. Bottom line is, don't use '-y' or automatically press 'y' when doing this!
P.