[PlanetCCRMA] Multiple versions of "up2date"

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:59, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:45, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >    I'm updating my 12 year old's Planet machine today. (back to school
> > > time, 'eh?) Anyway, I an apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade and
> > > things were going along fine, but about 1/2 way through 180 packages it
> > > quit. I rebooted and tried apt-get update again and got the message
> > > about multiple versions of up2date.
> > > 
> > >    How do I recover from this?
> > 
> > First let's make sure you have multiple versions. Just do a:
> >   rpm -q up2date
> > If you do, then you can remove _all_ of them by:
> >   rpm -e --allmatches up2date
> > I don't know why this may have happened. Did you get an error message
> > when the original update quit?
>  
>    Well, there are two copies:
> 
> up2date-3.0.7-1
> up2date-3.0.7.2-1
> 
> rpm -e --allmatches up2date failed for dependencies. (firstboot, others,
> etc...) 

I see, you can, I guess, ignore dependencies (bad, of course :-). 
  rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches up2date
and the install it only once:
  apt-get install up2date
or most probably (because dependencies are hosed)
  apt-get -f install

-- Fernando