Using hint from MA Young - find duplicates
M A Young
m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sun Aug 29 08:48:12 UTC 2004
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Since I was curious as to the extent of duplicate programs installed. I
> decided to search the redhat site to determine how many programs were
> multiple installs. After running the script from a posting from MA
> Young, here is what appeared duplicated. This is an ataached files.
>
> The query below shows one example for translation of the attached file.
>
> rpm -q binutils
> binutils-2.15.91.0.2-4
> binutils-2.15.91.0.2-8
Get the more up to date rpm, then try
rpm -Uvh newer.rpm --replacepkgs --replacefiles
MIchael Young
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