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From: "Michael Stauber" <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:22 AM
Subject: [coba-e:10543] Re: Clean BQ to Cobalt 550 install than yum update
> Hi Tunc,
>
>> rpm -e php-imap php php-mysql php-mbstring php-pear php-gd --nodeps
>> error: package php-imap is not installed
>> error: "php-mbstring" specifies multiple packages
>> error: "php-pear" specifies multiple packages
>> error: "php-gd" specifies multiple packages
>>
>> Looks as if we need to unistall something else.
>
> Ok, looks like you had a corrupted RPM database.
>
> If you do an "rpm -qa|grep php-mbstring" for example, it should only list
> ONE
> package. In your case probably listed a few with different version
> numbers.
> Same for php-mbstring and any other RPM where it said "specifies multiple
> packages".
>
> The usual fix is to run "rpm --rebuilddb" which will unclutter the RPM
> database. Sometimes it also helps to manually remove the double entries
> manually by using "rpm -e RPM-NAME-VERSION-RELEASE" for each and any RPM
> that's listed twice.
>
> Example:
>
> rpm -e php-imap-4.3.9-3.22.5
>
> Of course all of the RPMs that were removed this way need to be
> reinstalled
> through yum, which will fetch the latest version of said RPM.
>
>> I did something to bypass the problem I think it was remove and
>> reinstalling
>> php-imap, it did the correction and after that all installed ok
>> Thanks
>
> Very well.
>
> --
> With best regards,
>
> Michael Stauber
> http://www.solarspeed.net
Thanks Michael
This is helpful.
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