Can Fedora count it rpms?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 21.10.2013 00:03, schrieb Alchemist:
> 2013/10/21 Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net <mailto:dmcgarrett at optonline.net>>
> 
>     On 10/20/2013 05:36 PM, Fred Erickson wrote:
>     > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:45:05 +0000 (UTC)
>     > Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net <mailto:beartooth at comcast.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:36:01 +0100, John Horne wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> rpm -qa | wc -l
>     >>
>     >>      Thanks! That told me 2377; does this number seem plausible?
>     >>
>     >
>     > [fred at athbox-f18 ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
>     > 2351
>     > [fred at athbox-f18 ~]$ uname -r
>     > 3.11.4-101.fc18.x86_64
>     >
>     > Note: I have developer packages and 3 desktops are installed.
>     >
>     I don't know what this is counting--I must have missed the first post.
>     Anyway, I ran it in my pclos-kde-32, and go this:
> 
>     [doug at linux1 ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
>     2352
> 
>     So what is it that I have 2352 of?
> 
>     --doug
> 
> 
> grep out fc19 or fc18 or so Fedora N versions, for possible dublicates (in that case, next step package-cleanup)
> rpm -qa | grep fcN | wc -l

why in the next step?

this is a completly wrong advise, there maybe F18/F19 packages which are
*not* dupes and so the grep shows nothing with value

"package-cleanup --dupes" is your friend
as well as "package-cleanup --cleandupes"

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