[SOLVED] Re: duplicate rpm problem

[Frank]

On 06/10/13 05:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

    I tried package-cleanup but it didn't work.

but

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


did!

[root at localhost frank]# rpm -qa | grep cronie
cronie-anacron-1.4.10-7.fc19.i686
cronie-1.4.10-7.fc19.i686
[root at localhost frank]#

Thanks Michael


Cheers


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