On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:51, Christian B. Ellsworth Capo wrote:
BOB: i ran into the same problem last night in a fedora core1, with apt/synaptic and many unstable and testing repositories, and a very unlucky power failure in the middle of a massive rpm upgrade.
rpm throws a message like this for each package(doing this from my recent brain memory) ERROR: package XXXXXX exists bla bla bla s
HOW I FIXED: i ran apt-get update on the output gaves a list of duplicate pakages...
Greetings All,
Another way to fix it is running synaptic. Update the list and it will pop up a requester showing all the duplicated packages. Then just search for those packages and remove the old versions.
YMMV, depending on the number of duplicates. It's not elegant but it saves time rebuilding the rpm database.