Please forgive the html (rtf) mail. I am responding from work.
Yes, I did try the --force option with a resulting error message that '
--force is only allowed on install or update', or something like that.
Regards,
Donn Shumway
dshumway@hypercom.com
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a
mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-- Dan Quayle
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have you tried using the CLI command with the force option? you'll have to
man rpm to get the flag, can't remember it off the top of my head...
HTH
-----Original Message-----
From: Donn Shumway [mailto:donn@linuxfan.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:54 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: duplicate RPMs installed
I have noticed two errors when installing two new packages. An error
will occur like
'error getting record /bin/sh from file://var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm'.
When I try to cancel it, it seems to cancel, but then I get a
duplicate entry, in this case Glide_V3-2.60.15-3mdk.i586.rpm and
Glide_V3-2.60.15-4mdk.i586.rpm are both installed and I haven't been
able to uninstall either of them. When I use the command line to
uninstall the response is that the package is not installed, if I use
kpackage, the message is '"Glide_V3" specifies multiple packages'.
I am using Mandrake v7.1 on a K6II-450, 128M RAM, Voodoo3 2000.
How do I uninstall both packages and start over?
Thanks for any assistance,
Donn