On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 14:31 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote:
First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions
of
the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does
the command:
rpm -q glibc
report one or more packages?
If the former, the you can probably fix the problem by a clean and
reset of both the RPM and Yum package data (which is harmless in any
event):
# Remove the RPM package DB:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
# Rebuild the RPM package DB:
rpmdb --rebuilddb
# Clear the Yum cache:
yum clean all
# Rebuild the Yum package data (and check for updates):
yum check-update
If the latter, then try the following:
# Install yum-utils (if you don't have it already):
yum install yum-utils
# Clean up duplicate packages
# NOTE: I'd recommend a review of the Man page and use of the
information options first:
package-cleanup --cleandupes
HTH,
It did help - thanks Andy...
It was the latter (2 copies of e.g. qlibc) so I ran
package-cleanup --cleandupes
This caused me to take a bit of a deep breath as it also wanted to
remove various dependencies and amounted to some 50 packages to be
removed.
However - "yum check" comes up clean and the so far everything seems OK.
Thanks for your help. Much appreciated...
Mark