After searching around, I think it's debian/ubuntu - that "Synaptic"
application is a frontend for apt-get The URL I provided includes a
"fix" for such a system. Seems like it's worth a shot to try!
-Jim
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> Doesn't sound like Fedora to me but if it was, you could install
> yum-utils package and run commands like...
>
> package-cleanup --dupes
> # to identify or
> package-cleanup --cleandupes
> # to automatically remove the older versions
>
> Craig
>
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:54 -0700, nrezinorn wrote:
>> What distribution is this? Fedora?
>> If there are multiple packages installed via a manager (lets say
>> yum),try running this command:
>>
>> > rpm -qa |grep procps
>>
>> If you get more than one result, you should be able to rpm -e the
>> full rpm name you don't want/need. I find it stranger than an RPM
>> distro is "slotting" packages with the same name....but i guess you
>> can do that from what you stated above.
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/multiple-versions-of-packages-installed-160259/#post829725
>> seems to be the same question. Hope this helps!
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/20/09, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
>> > Synaptic just did an hours worth of updates on one of my systems,
>> > ending with the warning message shown below. So some questions:
>> >
>> > #1. How could I have ended up with multiple versions of 'procps'?
>> > #2. How do I find and eliminate any extra multiple versions?
>> > #3. The warning describes setting one of two options in a configuration
>> > file,
>> > but it does not indicate which configuration file or where to find it. ??
>> > #4. I tried typing "RPM::Allow ..." at the command line, and got "not found"
>> > ??
>> > #5. So what should I do?
>> >
>> > The warning message:
>> >
>> > W: There are multiple versions of "procps" in your system.
>> > This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
>> > only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
>> > you may remove that warning by setting the following
>> > option in your configuration file:
>> > RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^procps$"; };
>> >
>> > To disable these warnings completely set:
>> > RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";
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