Re: RPM Database Problem

[Steven W Orr <steveo world std com>]

Same thing happened to me when I reloaded onto a partially upgraded
system.

Here's the fix: 

You have foo-2.3-4 and foo-2.5-6

rpm -e foo-2.3-4
rpm --force -Uvh foo.2.5--6

Obviously you must have the rpm available to do it. Have fun.

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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Steve Borho wrote:

=>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'
=>
=>