On Wed January 17 2007 17:17, Nigel Henry wrote: > As this is now the 3rd time I've installed FC5 now, I'm loathe to do the > updates because of this problem of ending up with duplicate librsvg2 > packages on the system. yes it seems this bug has been here for time! 214855 > I'v already had to reinstall FC5 twice, because of gdm being seemingly > totally broken, after having used "rpm -e librsvg2-2.14.2-1" to remove the > earlier librsvg package so as only leave one version installed, although I > had already tried to remove it using synaptic, but kept getting errors, and > synaptic could not remove it. > > I've already had this problem with FC5 back in Oct 2006, but it appears > that back then rpm -e for the package, worked ok, and I followed this up > with a removal, and reinstall of gdm, and that FC5 install is working ok. > > So what is the safest way to go about this? Should I just update this > librsvg2 package before doing any of the other updates, then if it ends up > with both versions, remove the earlier one, so that there are no conflicts > between the 2? In a word yes. It may not be safe :-) but here's what I did when I had the two libs: rpm -ev --noscripts librsvg2-<2.x.x> # rip out the old one <insert version> rpm -Uvh --force librsvg2-<2.x.x.>.i386.rpm # slap the current back in rpm -V librsvg2 # make sure it looks good :-) less is good. ...dex ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
