Re: RPM Database Problem

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:09:27PM -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
> 
> Recently, I upgraded several of my XFree86 RPMs. Because of something
> unrelated that I screwed something, I decided to reinstall XF* from the
> the RH6 CD.  Now when I do a 'rpm -q' of some of those RPMs, I get two
> listings: the original RPM and the upgraded RPM.
> 
> How do I recover from this?  Ideally, I'd like to totally blow away my entire 
> XFree86 installation and reinstall it correctly from scratch.  Unfortunately, 
> I cannot figure out how to do this.

I would try an 'rpm --rebuilddb' first.  After that, try removing the
packages using '--force'

-- 
Steve Borho