FC5 rpm database corrupt

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:51 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> This is the aftermath of problems described in my thread "FC5 unbootable after 
> yesterday's updates" from the past few days. There are some major problems 
> with my installation that I can't seem to resolve. I have multiple versions 
> of programs listed as installed - for example, if I run Synaptic, it says 
> that it detects 92 broken packages; in the list that pops up after clicking 
> the "OK" there are multiple programs listed as having multiple versions 
> installed. I don't use Synaptic to manage the system, but it's a useful 
> diagnostic tool on occasion. I've tried using yum remove and rpm -e to remove 
> some of these multiple packages but the system seems to go through the 
> removal process in a couple of seconds, and refreshing the list of installed 
> packages shows the program version I ostensibly removed, still installed. 
> I've tried "rpm --rebuilddb" and "yum clean all". I'm not sure where to go 
> with this. It's ironic, because I started with a clean install and the 
> intention of keeping the system exceptionally conservative; no additional 
> repos were added except the kde-redhat and livna repos. I did not turn on any 
> development sections of the repos, yet my system is seemingly more badly 
> munged than any I've ever built. 
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FC-5, I probably wouldn't use apt/synaptic

rpm -e --allmatches some-duplicated-package

I am not sure that exceptionally conservative and enabling livna and
kde-redhat repos is an oxymoron. Not that there is anything bad with
either repo...just the only exceptionally conservative setup is the
default.

Craig