duplicate rpm problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 17:07:13 -0400, Frank wrote:

> While updating my Fedora 19 system today using check-update I discovered 
> this:
> 
> 
> ** Found 1 pre-existing rpm db problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
> cronie-1.4.10-7.fc19.i686 is a duplicate with cronie-1.4.10-6.fc19.i686
> [root at localhost frank]#
> 
> 
> It seems a few weeks ago Yum attempted to update cronie. as I recall
> it failed because of a script problem in the package. I tried it a 
> second time
> and seemingly it installed. But now I have the duplicate problem.
> 
> What's the best way to resolve this ?

First (as superuser root) try out the

  package-cleanup --cleandupes

command. If that doesn't manage to remove the duplicate, give

  rpm --erase --justdb --noscripts --notriggers cronie-1.4.10-6.fc19

a try.