How to disable multiple versions of 'procps'

[Craig White]

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 at 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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