Nigel Henry wrote:
Anyway FC5 booted up ok when the power came back, and I ran apt-get update again just to check out whether everything was ok. I've got a big bunch of deletes from apt-get update, and the last entry is. W: There are multiple versions of "librsvg2" in your system.
True. Looking in synaptic I have libsrvg2#2.14.2-1, and libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 .
/usr/lib shows librsvg-2.so.2 pointing to librsvg-2.so.2.14.4
Is it safe to just remove the earlier librsvg2#2.14.2-1 version from the system?
Check libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 with rpm -V. If there's a problem, re-install it (with rpm -U --oldpackage).
Then try removing the earlier package and see what happens (with rpm -e or rpm -e --test). If anything complains, see if you can sort it out. If RPM lets you, you're very unlikely to see any real problems.
In any case, this is hardly a system-critical library.
Hope this helps,
James.