On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, itayf at nospammail.net wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:15:28 +0200 (IST) > From: <itayf at nospammail.net> > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > To: <centos at centos.org> > Subject: [CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade. > > > Hi, > > I am running a CentOS 4.3 machine. I wish to move on to 4.4. > My problem is that I have some 60 duplicate packages listed > below. The kernel and gpg-pubkey packages are different > versions of the same (none for the gpg) architecture. All the > rest are a x86_64 and i[356]86 pairs. Thanks to Will and Bart for the help so far. 'yum deplist' on the list of installed packages revealed many cases in which both x86_64 and i[356]86 packages provide the same dependency. Example: package: gdbm.x86_64 1.8.0-24 dependency: libc.so.6()(64bit) provider: glibc.x86_64 2.3.4-2.25 dependency: /sbin/ldconfig provider: glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.25 <<============== provider: glibc.x86_64 2.3.4-2.25 <<============== dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) provider: glibc.x86_64 2.3.4-2.25 Note that both glibc.i686 and glibc.x86_64 are installed on my machine. I'm sorry if this is a newbie question - but how do I proceed from here? Shouldn't I try to remove the i686 package provided that all its dependencies are satisfied by the x86_64 package as above? Thanks, Itay