Duplicate packages - what do I do?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:26:25AM -0500, awrobinson at nc.rr.com wrote:
> On a new install of FC4 x86_64, I find that I'm getting duplicate
> packages. I've included the output of 'rpm -qa | sort' below to
> illustrate. This seems to be causing problems with 'yum upgrade'. If I
> try to delete a duplicate, I get an error message: 

They aren't really duplicate, they are different arch packages.
Just try rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' | sort
instead and you'll see the differences.
> 
> [root at muses ~]# rpm -e alchemist-1.0.36-1
> error: "alchemist-1.0.36-1" specifies multiple packages

You can rpm -e alchemist-1.0.36-1.i386 alchemist-1.0.36-1.x86_64
in this case (provided you want to uninstall both arches of the package).

	Jakub