Re: Safest way to remove duplicate lib packages
On Wed January 17 2007 17:17, Nigel Henry wrote:
As this is now the 3rd time I've installed FC5 now, I'm
loathe to do the
updates because of this problem of ending up with duplicate librsvg2
packages on the system.
yes it seems this bug has been here for time! 214855
I'v already had to reinstall FC5 twice, because of gdm being
seemingly
totally broken, after having used "rpm -e librsvg2-2.14.2-1" to remove the
earlier librsvg package so as only leave one version installed, although I
had already tried to remove it using synaptic, but kept getting errors, and
synaptic could not remove it.
I've already had this problem with FC5 back in Oct 2006, but it appears
that back then rpm -e for the package, worked ok, and I followed this up
with a removal, and reinstall of gdm, and that FC5 install is working ok.
So what is the safest way to go about this? Should I just update this
librsvg2 package before doing any of the other updates, then if it ends up
with both versions, remove the earlier one, so that there are no conflicts
between the 2?
In a word yes.
It may not be safe :-) but here's what I did when I had the two libs:
rpm -ev --noscripts librsvg2-<2.x.x> # rip out the old one <insert version>
rpm -Uvh --force librsvg2-<2.x.x.>.i386.rpm # slap the current back in
rpm -V librsvg2 # make sure it looks good :-) less is good.
...dex
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