On 21/06/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:51 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > So I now presume, based on the snippet Ralph provided that the breakage > > > is not *duplicates*, but multiple versions installed at the same time > > > (if we could believe my rpm db)? Is that correct? > > > > > > > i should have been clearer initially, its duplicates as in multiple > > copies of the same rpm but with different versions. You only want to > > have 1 version of 1 rpm installed per Arch > > OK. Thanks. When I first started CentOS and had almost *zero* yum and > rpm background, I had some failures during updates. Learned about > clearing the yum cache and headers (IIRC?) from you folks on the list, > but had not yet read all the yum and rpm man pages and other docs. So > (out of fear or haste intelligence? ;-) never looked into the rpm > status. Things were working, I was busy reading/learning and I was > "happy". > > Now I'll "rpm -qa" it and see what I can find. Must be other stuff. > Anyway, thanks for the heads up. You might want to go have a look back though the archives for the cause of these problems. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/062568.html This will give you a list of duplicated packages... # rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{arch}\n" | sort | uniq -d Will.