Removing Duplicate RPM Packages
To find a list of packages that have a newer version installed use:
rpm --last -qa | perl -n -e '/^(\S+)-\S+-\S+/; print "$&\n" if $SEEN{$1}; $SEEN{$1} ||= $_;' | sort | uniq >dupes.txt
The --last argument causes RPM to list packages by install date (newest first). We remove any packages with the same name as a more recently installed package.
To actually remove the packages (as root):
for i in $(cat dupes.txt); do rpm -e $i && echo $i; done
Depending on dependencies you may need to run this more than once.
rpm --last -qa | perl -n -e '/^(\S+)-\S+-\S+/; print "$&\n" if $SEEN{$1}; $SEEN{$1} ||= $_;' | sort | uniq >dupes.txt
The --last argument causes RPM to list packages by install date (newest first). We remove any packages with the same name as a more recently installed package.
To actually remove the packages (as root):
for i in $(cat dupes.txt); do rpm -e $i && echo $i; done
Depending on dependencies you may need to run this more than once.
posted by Tim at
5:39 pm
6 Comments:
for i in $(cat dupes.txt); do rpm -e $1 && echo $1; done
should be:
for i in $(cat dupes.txt); do rpm -e $i && echo $i; done
Thanks for the top part though!
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Anonymous, at 5:06 pm
after getting a list of duplicate rpms, I simply ran
#yum remove xxx.i386
on each rpm name (xxx). This helped me see what dependencies there were and check them against the duplicate list.
also had to use .i686 suffix to remove a couple of rpms.
rpm -qa does not return the arch type
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Anonymous, at 3:26 pm
Thanks, this was very helpful.
I ran into a couple RPMs that depended on each other, so had to remove them by hand.
The error for that looks like:
error: Failed dependencies:
oddjob-libs = 0.27-7 is needed by (installed) oddjob-0.27-7.i386
error: Failed dependencies:
oddjob = 0.27-7 is needed by (installed) oddjob-libs-0.27-7.i386
And the solution was to delete them both by hand at the same time:
% rpm -e oddjob-0.27-7 oddjob-libs-0.27-7
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Anonymous, at 3:40 pm
For uniq to work correctly you have to sort the input first!
So your inital command line with rpm --last should end with | sort | uniq
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Anonymous, at 2:22 pm
yum install yum-utils
package-cleanup --cleandupes
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Anonymous, at 2:20 pm
Amazing, simple and it works.
>>>yum install yum-utils
>>>package-cleanup --cleandupes
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Anonymous, at 6:51 pm
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