Re: rpm questions

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:25:41 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:

> I have a number of packages that have more than one entry. For instance
> glibc (2.3.3-20,2.3.3-18) and shadow_utils(4.0.3-21,4.0.3-19).
> I am not using a 64 bit system so I don't think that I should have
> multiple versions.
> 
> 1) Is there an easy way to find all such entities?

rpm -qa --qf "%{name}\n" | sort | uniq -d

Then investigate the packages and "rpm -V" them, too.

> 2) Should I delete the older version?

If that doesn't break the most recently installed version.
You may need --noscripts --notriggers --just as options.

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