On 18 May 2013 02:38, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/17/2013 05:57 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: >> >> I've now lost track of the ins-and-outs of this thread but perhaps >> this script [1] may help. It runs in test-mode by default (no action >> is taken). When executed with the "--notest" flag, then the actual >> work is done. >> >> A typical usage sequence would be: >> >> ./rpmdup_remover.sh >> ./rpmdup_remover.sh --notest >> yum update >> >> Alan. >> >> [1] http://www.centos.toracat.org/ajb/scripts/rpmdup_remover.sh >> > > Hi Alan, > > Thank you! The script unscrambled things to the point that > I was able to finish the job manually. > > I had a duplicate "qt" in both 32 bit and 64 bit. I removed > the 32 bit. Now things are much better behaved. > > I also found that if you add "--setopt=protected_multilib=false" > to your yum run string, you don't get the protected error, > but the just kicks the can down the road. > > -T
Excellent news. Thank you for reporting back with your success. No doubt toracat [2] will purr with satisfaction, knowing that the script still does the deed. Alan. [2] http://elrepo.org/people/ajb/toracat.jpg
