rpm reports 2 glibc, what can I do?

[James Olin Oden]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Gene C. wrote:

> On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:50, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm trying to debug this:
> >
> > yum update
> > .....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> > Package dbh-devel needs dbh = 1.0.18-1, this is not available.
> > Package samba needs samba-common = 0:3.0.2a, this is not available.
> > Package xorg-x11-libs needs xorg-x11-libs-data = 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9,
> > this                   is not available.
> > Package glibc needs glibc-common = 2.3.3-18, this is not available.
> >
> > I found this:
> > rpm -q glibc
> > glibc-2.3.3-18
> > glibc-2.3.3-18
> >
> > Probably this is the problem.  Obviously, I can't just erase glibc to fix
> > it.  What can I do?
> 
> First, are you on an AMD64 system?  If you are, you are suppose to have two 
> ... one is i386 (actually i686) and the other is x86_64.
> 
> Try "rpm -qi glibc"  ... this might give you additional info.
>
Probably, or if it is color issue (i.e. 32 versuse 64 bitness, you can do:

	rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}-%{INSTALLCOLOR}" glibc-common

The install color should be different between the two headers listed.

...james