On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought it would be good to run apt-get on an old RH 6.2 system here, > too. I installed and ran the appropriate version of apt-get for RH 6.2, > and it reported that there were multiple versions of bash installed. > > I checked, and it does look like there's a problem: > > # rpm -qa | grep bash > bash-1.14.7-22 [...] > bash-1.14.7-23.6x
At a guess I would say that that means one of those was force installed to overcome a "package x conflicts with package y" error. I don't actually know what RPM does in such cases (since I avoid them like the plague), but it does then beg the question of which package actually owns the files. Mary's suggestion of using the -Uvh command instead of -i is a good one. IMHO you should always use U unless you really, really, really want to be sure that you're installing rather than upgrading (the only situation I can think of where this is beneficial is kernels -- I never want to uninstall my old kernel before I know the new one boots). > [EMAIL PROTECTED] luke]# rpm -e bash-1.14.7-22 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] luke]# rpm -qa | grep bash > bash2-doc-2.03-8 > bash2-2.03-8 > bash-1.14.7-23.6x > > Okay, that's looking better. > > But if I try to remove version 1.14.7-23.6x I get many, many errors: You probably can do that if you upgrade all the packages in your system. I've only got bash 2.05. I imagine that what it is telling you is true though, that the packages in question do rely on bash 1. I would do rpm -ql bash and rpm -ql bash2 to see what files they both have. It may well be that bash2 has a bash2 binary you use to run it. At some point you'll upgrade to a bash-2 (note the dash, not bash2) package, which will upgrade the bash-1 package you have installed and you'll be back to "normal". And bash 2 is exciting stuff - it has arrays :) > # rpm --version > RPM version 4.0.2 I suspect you'll get prompted to do this at some point, but I highly recommend rpm 4.2. It's way fast. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
