Removing duplicate apps after FC6 upgrade from FC5

Karl Hakmiller karlh at concentric.net
Sun Feb 18 02:52:45 UTC 2007


On Saturday 17 February 2007, David Boles wrote:
> Karl Hakmiller wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 February 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >> On Saturday 17 February 2007 07:20, Karl Hakmiller wrote:
> >>> On Saturday 17 February 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >>>> Karl Hakmiller writes:
> >>>>> I just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 and have found a dozen or
> >>>>> more apps left in FC6 from the FC5 installation as well as
> >>>>> duplicate FC6 applications -- at least that is what Synaptic
> >>>>> reports.  I was expecting the first sort of redundancy but
> >>>>> not the second. Any suggestions about the best way to go
> >>>>> about locating and then deleting the superfluous files of
> >>>>> either sort?
> >>>>
> >>>> Curious -- can you look in your /root/upgrade.log.  I suspect
> >>>> that you'll find that the %post script from most of your
> >>>> packages has barfed during the update.  Long standing bug, at
> >>>> least since FC 3. Bug 178590.
> >>>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> There were various barfing during upgrade -- scriptlets failing
> >>> mostly.
> >>>
> >>> Viz,
> >>>
> >>> /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> >>> status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> >>> exit status 1
> >>> Upgrading xmlsec1 - 1.2.9-8.1.i386
> >>> Upgrading libXp - 1.0.0-8.i386
> >>> Upgrading perl-libwww-perl - 5.805-1.1.1.noarch
> >>> Upgrading xmlsec1-nss - 1.2.9-8.1.i386
> >>> Upgrading slib - 3a3-2.noarch
> >>> Upgrading dbus-sharp - 0.63-6.fc6.i386
> >>> Upgrading hal-gnome - 0.5.8.1-4.fc6.i386
> >>> /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> >>> status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> >>> exit status 1
> >>> Upgrading pnm2ppa - 1:1.04-13.2.2.i386
> >>> Upgrading mpage - 2.5.4-7.1.i386
> >>> Upgrading gnome-keyring-manager - 2.16.0-2.fc6.i386
> >>> /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
> >>> status 1 /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line
> >>> 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> >>> exit status 1
> >>> (END)
> >>
> >> That looks like a similar problem I had with a big update for
> >> FC5. Here It ended up with 2 versions of librsvg installed, and
> >> it proved a bit of a problem to remove the earlier version
> >> "librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386".  With another fresh install of FC5, I
> >> updated librsvg before doing any of the other updates, and
> >> librsvg upgraded ok, leaving only the newest version. Then I did
> >> an apt-get dist-upgrade, and had no problems.
> >>
> >> I know it's not much help if you've ended up with 2 versions of
> >> librsvg, and was a bit of trial and error to get rid of the
> >> earlier version.
> >>
> >> Nigel.
> >
> > Two versions of librsvg is but one of my problem duplications.  I
> > also have a double apt, various openoffice modulues, greo,
> > evolution, yelp, seamonkey, and on and on.  I'm just about out of
> > patience with using yum remove <app name> (though that is working
> > once the location is known; apt-get is hopeless because of the
> > double, I assume).  I'll probably just scrub the HD and reinstall
> > FC6.
>
> Karl why do you think, how do you know, that you have more than one
> version of some packages installed on your system?
>
>
> --
>
>   David

I ran Synaptic and read the error messages in Details; that told me 
about apps in conflict.  I also listed all the programs in Synaptic 
and took note of duplicate (though both were not necessarily
installed but taking up space needlessly) app names.

BTW, I just registered on redhat bugzilla to check whether it has been 
reported before (which I'm sure it has been) and I suspect I know why 
some folks don't use bugzilla.  Somewhat non-obvious useage is an 
understatement but I'm headed back to figure it out.

Karl L





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