Re: duplicate package on fresh install

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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
> <nmav(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> 
> Could be lots of reasons. An x86_64 and i686 library installed
> simultaneously can appear confusingly as duplicate libraries if you
> don't ask rpm to report architecture. A system interruption during the
> update can block rpm from clearing the old entries in its database. Or
> a failure of '%post' operations can cause the update to fail partway
> through.
> 
> The usual answer if there are genuinely two copies reported is to do a
> "reinstall" if it's two distinct versions of the same package, and to
> do an "rpm --rebuilddb" and see if that helps.

Reinstall or any other dnf operation except remove doesn't work, didn't try --rebuilddb. There are many cases of such broken state on forums, but system is usually working fine AFAICT. Is there a way to alter rpm database to remove one version of a package without altering the system?

> >
> > regards,
> > Nikos
> >
> > [0]. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378781
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