On 21/06/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks Will! Why is it so easy to recall reading all that once someone > points you to it but I'm a total blank about it (sometimes) before being > "reoriented". OTOH, I remember with amazing clarity most authored by > myself! :-) Good question. I probably remembered that thread because I suffered the problem and contributed a little (even though it was just to point out the previous thread). :) I suppose we skim threads and only really notice those that impact us directly. I know I rarely read threads on X config for example, so if I ever encounter X problems I'll be semi-clueless and will no doubt ask questions that've been covered before. Will.